i24NEWS correspondent Balig Sladeen to breaks down the consequential October 27th Israeli elections

With elections set for October 27th this year, it's arguably one of, if not, the most pivotal moment in the history of Israeli politics. We've all been through 3 years of war with all the internal crises, the hostage nightmare, and the expectations, or perhaps lack thereof, for change is on everyone's mind. On that note, we're joined in the studio by correspondent from the Sadi and I think we start with the Democrats party led by Yair Golan here who are the representing the left. Supposedly the Jewish left it appears increasingly by the rhetoric kind of declaring they won't weigh in or that they're going to structure how they discuss what used to be really pivotal subjects for the left. What's going on with this party right now? >> Yes, well they have been instructed. I mean the candidates in this party they have been instructed not to talk about security matters, especially those that happened in Judea and Samaria / West Bank and they need to seek approval from the party's leadership because of that because of very serious of controversies that lately many members did say things that have you know drove away from this party many of the people that are disappointed of the current coalition of the Netanyahu coalition. But they're not willing to actually go for some party that thinks the way that many of the candidates and members of this party actually think. Let's take a listen to how Yair Golan just tonight tried to dodge this problem talking about you know extremism and he tried to talk about more things that the party believes in that are in consensus in Israel. Let's take a listen. >> Shalom lekhem. >> Hello everyone. In recent weeks I have heard over and over again that the Democrats and I are extremists. Today I want to put things on the table and present to the public the plan for Israel that it deserves. I warn you you will hear some super radical things here. First, as someone who chose to spend most of his life as a commander and soldier in the IDF. I radically support turning off the financial tap for the draft evader scheme, and I support equalizing the draft for everyone. By the way, this extremist position is supported by about 85% of Israeli citizens. >> It's a 3-minute long video. He's talking about several issues that I think that the vast majority of Israelis believe in the issue of equality in the draft law, the other issues that could be considered liberal, you know, not the American sense maybe, but more the European sense that, you know, most Israelis are actually liberal. That's what he's talking about. What he's What he is actually taking out of you know, his speech here are controversies by Moshe Edelman, for example, that sent condolences for the Israeli that was killed, and also the Palestinian that killed him. And you know, this by itself was, you know, controversial issue back then. Who killed who? Who is to blame here? Also, Gabby Lasky, some maybe not see this as something that is extreme, but many, you know, Israelis on the right think that when you ask someone what is it Judean Samaria or West Bank, you should say Judean Samaria not West Bank. So, this is something that we see even Yair Golan saying that Israel is a country that kills babies as a hobby during the last couple of years. Also, before the war, he did call for disobedience when it was, you know, the protest about the judicial reforms. So, these are many controversies that he's not mentioning here, of course, but he knows what's the problem here. He needs to contain many of the Israelis that would actually vote for someone like Yair Golan, but some you know, statements, let's call them, are not you know, are driving people out, and they need to be fixed in this. >> I mean, it's a fascinating, you know, snapshot on the state of the current Israeli left. So, I you know, great to to detail this and Yair Golan at the head of this right now. But, there's another really intriguing story I want to get your thoughts on for our viewers who may not even be aware of this that uh Yoav Sigalov he was with the Yesh Atid a lawmaker with the Yesh Atid for these last years. He just left the party and he's making an appeal to Ra'am um under Mansour Abbas here the the Islamist party that once was in a coalition the only Arab party to ever be in an Israeli governing coalition just a few years ago. He's talking about joining that party and he's got a list of demands about um he wants the party to recognize Israel as a Jewish democratic state. He wants to talk about national service for uh Arab citizens in the country. He's breaking a lot of sort of barriers with this one. It got my attention. You know, what should we be thinking? What happened in this meeting today between these two? >> Well, first of all, um it wasn't, you know, 100% sure that this is going to happen actually that Sigalov will join Mansour Abbas, but it looks like from today's uh statement it is uh proceeding into that direction. And um Mansour Abbas as as you just mentioned he went too far, you know, um to that extent that he's calling for, you know, service for the Arabs maybe not military service, but you know, national service. >> Yeah. >> Um when he talked last coalition, uh you know, um he was talking in front of the Israeli flag something that also was noted in the Israeli community. So, he went too far I would say from the Israeli the Arab-Israeli perspective and he's still getting five to six seats. This is of course from his um point of view definitely very very impressive even more than the Arab parties that are, you know, the his competitors. >> he's very popular. >> about Hadash here um well-known party very old still they are not even getting close to him and now he wants to legitimize his party for the Zionist coalition and brings in um Yoav Sigalov. Yoav Sigalov he was a deputy um for the internal security minister in the past uh government. He wants to bring him to deal with the crime scenes and the crime rate that we have in the Arab community and by doing that he hopes we don't know whether that's going to work for him or not. He hopes that these Arab parties Eisenkot, Bennett, others will will find it like This is not an Arab party. >> It's a fascinating moment. >> It's an Israeli party that maybe some of its members are Arabs. >> And and it's great seeing Liberman, yeah, not a softy, not not a living in a fantasy. He's trying to sort of change the paradigm around who can work together in this. It's an interesting one. Good for our viewers to pay attention to. Thanks for shedding light on all of that.