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in the last election 70% of eligible voters voted, 23% voted for the likud (bibi).

and people have been objecting to his policies for years, but didn't believe protesting would help. especially after the 2011 protests changed nothing.

he's called that way because he can create a coalition with anyone, even with a non-zionist ultra-orthodox party like the utj.
and even when it seems like he has no chance of getting enough mandates / forming a coalition.

this addon for firefox: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
works great also for mobile. but i use the fennec version from fdroid.

sounds like it.
i forgot i have a paywall bypass. looks like there are more articles about it now:
https://apnews.com/article/britain-pouria-zeraati-iran-international-tv-1eefb01cbd5e8f1e25de97c53c333524

they have trade agreements with both egypt and jordan.
and both jordan and mainly egypt import a lot of gas from israel, while jordan also imports a lot of water.

from what i understood, the laws they pass to help their voters tend to also resonate with muslim arabs and bedouins.

and yes. it's one of the ultra-orthodox parties in the coalition. just that this one is zionist and aims to mainly represent sephardic/mizrahi jews.

you edited your comment. it was initially "Sure, if you say so."

i replied to a comment of a person who thought the attack was unprovoked, and that israel attacked first.
the article shows hizballah was the one who started this round and joined hamas's attack on israel.

i thought anyone following these events would be aware of the continous barrages from hizballah, as there are news about it all the time..

Hezbollah Fires More Than 100 Rockets Into Israel, Drawing Retaliation
"Since Oct. 7, Hezbollah has been firing rockets into northern Israel on a near-daily basis."

Israeli Killed in Heavy Rocket Barrage Fired at Northern Israel, After IDF Strikes in Lebanon Kill Seven
"Zaher Bishara, from a Druze village in Israel's north, was killed in an industrial building after Hezbollah fired a barrage of about 30 rockets at Kiryat Shmona.”
from yesterday.

Missiles fired from Lebanon, mortars launched from Syria as northern front heats up

US intel suggests Syria’s Assad agreed to send Russian missile system to Hezbollah with Wagner group help
"Wagner and Hezbollah fighters have both operated in Syria for years, where they have been working alongside Russian and Syrian armed forces to bolster the Assad regime against the Syrian opposition."
in case you're wondering about their presence in syria.

a reuters article from the 8th of october:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-strikes-lebanon-after-hezbollah-hits-shebaa-farms-2023-10-08/

"Hezbollah on Sunday said it had launched guided rockets and artillery onto three posts in the Shebaa Farms "in solidarity" with the Palestinian people."

not necessarily.
there are quite a bit of druze who vote likud, and a surprising amount of muslim israeli arabs and bedouins who vote for shas.
i haven't seen an article that mentions how much of a percentage they are out of all likud or shas voters though. but in some towns and villages they are as much as 30%+

hizballah and co. have been shooting rockets at israel from lebanon and syria since the 8th of october.

the current coalition got 49.5% of the votes.
the coalition is also made up of non-zionist ultra-orthodox.

That's false.
Hamas does have a presence, and it has grown over the years of people being dissatisfied with Fatah. And the support of Hamas there is even greater than in Gaza.

which happened once by likud activists.
and yet more arab israelis voted than ever before in the election after that.

missed out an important part:

..the overall vote in many of these cities was not for right-wing parties – it was simply split between multiple candidates on the Center or Left.

not quite.
last elections 70% of eligible voters voted.
likud has gotten around 24% of their votes.
this was about the same even in the election before that.

so i'm guessing you're referring just to israeli jews? not israeli druze, bedouin or arabs?
and which jews are you referring to that "choose to live there"? as a lot of israeli jews have been there for some generations by this point. it's their home (let alone the families who remained since the kingdom of judah).

and that's some nice propaganda for israel, but unfortunately israel's poverty rate is among the highest in the developed world. while also being one of the highest cost of living countries.
bibi's economic policies and transfer of funds to ultra-orthodox organizations and private education institutions has only made things worse for most over the years.

helmets, flak jackets, humanitarian aid, field hospitals manned by israeli medical personnel (which is mentioned in the article), generators for hospitals and refugee assistance centers.

and i didn't remember that, but apparently there were already israeli anti-drone systems approved for export to ukraine last year. not sure if these are the same ones though.
https://www.axios.com/2023/03/15/israel-ukraine-anti-drone-system-approve-russia-war

70% of eligible voters voted.
the current government's parties were voted in by 49.5% of those voters.
out of those, 14.13% were ultra-orthodox parties who always go with bibi because he gives them everything they want. about half of those are non-zionist.

they helped, just not with weapons.
as russian forces are present in syria.

but now that israel is already at war with russian-iranian proxies / allies, there's no need to hold back anymore.