Israel's High-Turnout Vote Brushed Aside in Rest of the Middle East

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Others across the Middle East were merely filled with more pessimism after a nationalist veteran prime minister and a former hawkish military chief competed for Israel's leadership.
48% : In Egypt, the first Arab country to make peace with Israel in 1979, 62-year-old lawyer Outhman Selim said his hopes that a ⁠Netanyahu defeat would steer ⁠the country away from the far right had been dashed.
47% : Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving prime minister, won the support of an unexpectedly clear majority of Israeli Jews in the contest, apparently ensuring he will survive at least in a caretaker role.
46% : Eisenkot emphasized his security credentials on the campaign ⁠trail, citing his "Dahiyeh doctrine" of responding to attacks with disproportionate force, which he deployed as a commander during Israel's 2006 war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
43% : The election was the first since the Palestinian militant group Hamas shook Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostage.
42% : Portraying himself as the only leader who could protect the country, the consummate political survivor argued that his assassinations of the leaders of Hamas, Lebanon's Hezbollah and their ally Iran made Israel, and the world, safer.
42% : PROSPECT OF RENEWED WAR WITH IRAN He also highlighted Israel's military successes and raised the prospect of renewed joint military action against Iran alongside his ally, US President Donald Trump.
40% : The ensuing war in Gaza, which flattened most of the territory and killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, according to health authorities there, has left Israel increasingly isolated on the world stage, with a decisive shift in global ⁠public ⁠opinion against it, including in its closest ⁠ally the United States.
40% : Kamel Haddad, an 81-year-old Lebanese man who has witnessed Israel's conflicts with neighbouring states over decades, expected no changes.
31% : Netanyahu was heavily ⁠criticised over security failures leading up to the Hamas assault on Israel's deadliest day.

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