Also, if you look at what needs to happen for the settlements to be dismantled, this is definitely a step down that road.

Step one, the essential step, is to *heighten the contradictions within Israeli society* between the secular, just-want-to-live-their-life Tel Aviv types and the crazy Black Hats. You want more and more confrontations between the two groups; angry riots by Black Hats in Jerusalem, attacks by settlers on Israeli security forces, etc.

You need this for two reasons; it gives the new leaders of the ruling coalition the clout to shift policy, and it helps shift the country to a more unified footing against the settlers so that they’re not the perpetual swing vote in Israeli politics, with all that demands.

There’s one big thing Palestinians with Israeli citizenship could do to help this work; set aside their differences among one another and present a more unified front that’d make them attractive, reliable coalition partners. Palestinian Israelis punch below their weight in Israeli politics, and one big reason is the very high degree of in-fighting they engage in over a ton of different issues.

If they’re serious about making this happen, they need to become single-issue voters, *at least for now*, just as the Gush Emanim are. Willing to all vote a party line simply so that there’s a political coalition to get the illegal settlements dismantled.