Did the Right Actually Win the Israeli Election?

I thought it did, but Bradley Burston points out that Avigdor Lieberman embraces many of the positions favored by the Tel Aviv left, though he does it without the feel-good rhetoric:

Lieberman, the hands-down success story of the election, has repeatedly outraged the far-right by suggesting in the past that some heavily Arab-populated East Jerusalem neighborhoods and refugee camps be ceded to an eventual independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. He has consistently alienated the ultra-Orthodox - an essential building block of any right-wing dream coalition - by demanding civil-marriage and modified Jewish conversion legislation favored by Lieberman's ultra-secular constituency.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2009/02/did-the-right-actually-win-the-israeli-election/9555/