Israeli election doesn’t signal any change on the horizon

The next Israeli government will probably be just as expansionist, and just as willing to go to war again, as the present one is.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s, left, main opposition candidate in the Oct. 27 election is former general Gadi Eisenkot. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

October 20, 2026

LONDON, U.K.—According to the 1970s anarchist slogan, “No matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.” That’s certainly true for the election in Israel this month on Oct. 27, even if the winner is not Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu himself. ...

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