The Israeli Left Is Doomed

Commentary 
Israel’s left-wing opposition triumphed in March by forcing Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing right-wing coalition to suspend its plans to reform the judicial system. The left wing may next succeed in derailing the reform plans altogether, in forcing new elections, and even—its ultimate prize—in banishing Likud-leader Netanyahu altogether from politics.
These successes, if they occur, will merely be last gasps in the decades-long weakening of the left’s grip on power. All trends in the Israeli mosaic—where the right-wing coalition’s 64 seats already represent an 18-seat advantage over the opposition parties’ 46 seats—point to an ever-eroding left, and an ever-enlarging right….