With Netanyahu Victory, It's Time We Admit: Israel Has Become a Dictatorship

If Binyamin Netanyahu manages to bribe his way to a ramshackle, immunity- from-prosecution coalition after his borderline showing in Tuesday's election, we will all know one thing for sure: Israel has become a dictatorship. You need look no further than his Election Day obscenities of voter fraud and voter suppression. First to come to light was the operation in which Netanyahu's Likud planted 1,200 hidden cameras in polling stations in Arab areas of Israel. Only in Arab areas. In the main, the campaign was marked by a monopolization and manipulation of media. Under the pressure of Netanyahu's charges of bias and with the past knowledge that the prime minister could bring further harm to careers and media outlets, the media pushed back only meekly against a cascade of lies directed at Gantz.