… The same year Bill Clinton was elected to the White House, Israeli voters gave the social democratic Labor Party, the farther-left Meretz and the Communists nearly half the vote. Last month, the successors to those parties mustered only 13 percent.
Why did the Israeli left collapse?
First, one must understand that left and right mean very different things in America and Israel. Most of the issues over which Democrats and Republicans do battle are matters of consensus in Israel. CONT.
Mark Mellman (Mellman Group), The Hill