Tomorrow, [the neocolony] will hold its fifth general election in three and a half years. Our political system is in gridlock, and voters are being called on again and again to solve it. Unfortunately, the biggest issue that affects our lives here in […] the occupied territories - our military rule over more than 5 million Palestinians - has not been a major (or even minor) issue in any one of these five election cycles.

With that in mind, we decided that our political system needs a wake-up call. So we got to work putting together an election campaign, whose purpose is to highlight the most important subject no one’s talking about: the occupation.

We put up giant billboards on the Ayalon - Tel Aviv’s busiest highway - for a satirical party called “BLOOD: A Strong Occupation for Israel”. And we put out a campaign ad, which quickly went viral on [Hebrew] social media feeds - racking up hundreds of thousands of views within days - and got people from across the political spectrum talking about the issue that our politicians refuse to address. That’s why they need reminding that not talking about the occupation won’t make it go away.

This ad may have been satire, but at the same time, it’s an all-too-accurate reflection of what the major parties running in this election have on offer - and have offered for more than five decades now. While the politicians pretend that everything’s fine - all of us, Palestinians and [occupiers], are made to pay the price for the endless hatred, violence and bloodshed.

We deserve a better future. [The occupation’s] voters need to know that the choice is in our hands.

(Emphasis original; courtesy of an email from Breaking the Silence.)