Eisenkot or Netanyahu: No matter who forms government, democracy is dead

If Israel were a democracy, as the Jewish diaspora claims, a government would now be formed that reflects the result of last night’s election . This would be a majority or minority administration of Gadi Eisenkot with the participation, either formal or informal, of the two Palestinian blocs. If Benjamin Netanyahu honoured this result, there would be no way back to power for his ultra-rightwing bloc. For Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, it would be the end of an era. But Israel is not a democracy, and Netanyahu is no democrat. It is a settler state that has moulded itself increasingly tightly around the identity and views of Jewish fascists.