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In the wake of recent political reshuffling, polls opened to millions of Israeli voters last Tuesday. Halfway around the globe, Tartans for Israel ended mock elections at Carnegie Mellon.

Centrist party Kadima claimed 28 of the 120 Knesset seats in the actual Israeli elections, followed by the left-wing Labor party with 20 seats and right-wing Likud party with 11 seats.

“The far right and the far left got clobbered,” said military and political analyst Elliot Chodoff, speaking of the election results last Wednesday in Porter Hall. A specialist in terrorism, sociology, and Middle East conflict, Chodoff spoke to Carnegie Mellon students about the impact of the Israeli elections.

“Peace is certainly not on the horizon,” Chodoff said.

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