Video taking off 24x its usual first day

Alterman looks beyond Israel's deadlock to a traumatized electorate

The CSIS analyst's explanation of coalition politics drew an audience roughly twenty-four times Face the Nation's usual first-day viewing.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 351,497 views a day, 24 times a normal first day on this channel (14,462).

What's next as Israel sees no clear winner with 88% of votes counted

"There's going to be a lot of politicking going on," Jon Alterman tells CBS News as Israel's unfinished election count leaves neither Benjamin Netanyahu nor Gadi Eisenkot with enough seats for a majority coalition.

The segment, from The Daily Report and posted on Face the Nation's channel, asks what happens after the ballots. Alterman points to Netanyahu's experience assembling coalitions and the harder path facing Eisenkot, a former Israeli military chief. Netanyahu remains caretaker prime minister while the negotiations unfold.

But changing the government and changing the country's diplomatic direction are different questions. Alterman describes an electorate that remains center-right, deeply polarized and traumatized by October 7. His analysis puts those public attitudes alongside the parliamentary arithmetic, rather than treating a different prime minister as a complete political reset.

The report also includes contrasting reactions from Israeli voters: one says Netanyahu should not remain in government after October 7, while another hopes Likud's right-wing coalition can form a government.

The upload drew about 350,000 views in its first day. Its central unresolved issue is the role of Arab voters in forming a governing majority. As Alterman puts it: "The fundamental question for Israel is what to do with the Arab vote."

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