Lod after the elections: when ballot boxes are read as a map of control

An opinion article in Arab48 discusses the 'Sovereignty' march organized by settlers in Lod on Sunday evening, coinciding with the appointment of Eisenkot to form the government. The writer sees the march as aimed at declaring control over the place, resulting from a right-wing reading of the election results, noting that the Arab electoral achievement does not change the deep structures of control.

This opinion article on the Arab48 website discusses a provocative march organized by settlers in the city of Lod, which they called 'Sovereignty,' and which toured one of the Arab neighborhoods last Sunday evening. The writer believes that the march did not come to demand a right, but to declare control over the place and establish it before its residents, and that it came as a result of an explicit right-wing reading of the election results. He notes the coincidence of the march with the appointment of the head of the 'Yashar' party, Eisenkot, to form the government with the recommendation of 67 Knesset members, including Arab party representatives. The article raises the question: why does the right need to show its strength in a city that has never left the state's authority? It concludes that the elections changed nothing in the powers of the police and municipality, and that the 'sovereignty' these people chant is not state sovereignty but the control of one group over another within the same city.