When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to undermine his strongest ...
TEL AVIV - When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to undermine his strongest election challenger, he pins a label on him that many Israelis see as an insult: “Leftist”.
With Netanyahu in power for the past decade and months away from becoming Israel’s longest-serving leader if he is re-elected, the right is on the ascendant. Gantz embraces that legacy, running a television ad which highlighted the number of Palestinian militants killed on his watch. “If there is really deep damage our prime minister has done to society, it’s making the left-wingers traitors,” said Labour supporter Liat Arbel. “We are as part of Israel as right-wingers.”
“The left used to have a vision for Israel - a modern, Zionist, enlightened society on the cutting edge of the advanced world,” said Barak, who was prime minister from July 1999 until March 2001.
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