I have to wonder why the population voted Bibi in in the first place? What made them favor the war monger/hardliner?
So many things are wrong with this sentence alone.
Bibi is by no means a warmonger. In fact, he's a complete joke in that regard. He has been in office longer than any other person and he barely left any marks.
Not just in the security sense - in any sense (economical, religious etc)
Most PMs had some sort of legacy they left behind.
Bibi does nothing. He avoids confrontation with absolute madness. His resolution to anything has always been to just throw money at it - Hamas included.
Warmongering is not his forte.
In fact, it was he who initially through the idea that it's about time an arab party will make it into a government.
The man is by no means a right wing extremist with racist agendas.
He has
no agendas other than keeping himself in power.
So what did happen?
Starting with 2013, there have been seeds in the opposition parties to boycott the man himself. Why?
Part of it is because he kept stabbing all his partners in the back and they had enough of him. Partly it was because they kept losing to him and thought that campaign would work.
I want to be clear on this - while the man absolutely earned the fact that nobody trusts him (including his partners who were caught on tape saying it) - the reasons for the boycott were not based on any ideology.
I can say this as a fact since half the people in the boycott later tried to join him - or gave excuses such as "we don't deal with people who have legal charges against them" shortly before begging other party leaders with legal charges against them to join their coalition.
The point is that the boycott movement made it so essentially Israel became like a 2 party system. "us" and "them".
Essentially, even moderate people had to choose one way or another.
And what separates "us" and "them"? Same thing all over the world. Conservatives vs Liberal. Religious vs Secular. Racism. The big cities vs the outskirts. The deep state elite vs the ignorant appressed masses.
Technically, in the election, the other side had more votes. But because the anti-Bibi side was not as organized as Bibi's side, a lot of those votes went to parties that didn't get enough votes to be counted, and thus their votes did not count.
Overall, at least before this whole thing started, it's pretty much a 50-50 thing with every tiny technical thing shifting the balance. That's why Israel had 6 election in the span of 4 years.
The more extremist came from Ben-Gvir. A person who up until recently made everyone throw up just thinking of the possibility of him making into parliament. But he tried to make an appearance of being slightly more moderate and frankly younger population did not remember all his past dealings. He was considered the "outsider" who will straighten things out.
Pretty much closest to our version of Trump.
Ever since he was elected, everyone are trying to restrain his lunacy and most likely if anyone is getting the boost after this? It's probably him over Bibi.
