At Election Time, Israel Talks About Anything Other Than Peace
- Ahead of poll, there’s little sign of century-old struggle
- Last round of Mideast peace talks collapsed five years ago
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Not long ago it was the defining issue in Israeli elections. Today, even with Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” hovering in the background, Israeli-Palestinian peace barely registers on the campaign radar.
Their century-long struggle has been set aside by parties as they raucously debate corruption in high office and the divisiveness that’s beset Israeli society ahead of an April 9 vote that will either re-elect Benjamin Netanyahu’s nationalist alliance or put in power a centrist challenger.