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Barbara Kay: Bibi's electoral adversary may help dial down anti-Zionism in the West

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Israel’s first post-October 7 election, scheduled for late October, will represent a settling of accounts like no other. Benjamin (“Bibi”) Netanyahu and his long-empowered party, Likud, are in the national dock on a long list of charges. His odds of re-election with a government-forming coalition are currently poor.

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One issue uppermost in many Israelis’ minds is Likud resistance to launching a politically disinterested state commission of inquiry into alleged security failures on October 7.

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Equally problematic for Bibi, at a time when IDF resources are severely strained on multiple war fronts, with reservists in their 30s and even 40s being called up repeatedly, is a near-unanimous national opposition to long-tolerated military exemptions for the Ultra-Orthodox Haredim, roughly 80,000 men of military age.

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