Israeli Politics: Confused About What the Heck is Going On?

A quick run down of the running parties and what their platforms are –

On The Left:
Balad – A pro Palestinian nationalist party. Would like to destroy Israel.
United Arab List – A religious party consisting of Bedouins and Arabs. The UAL has 3 seats in the Knesset.
Hadash – A communist party. This party is all Arab and has 3 seats.
• Due to the recent raised voter threshold for a party to be in office, for any of these guys just mentioned to have a fat chance they would have to come together as one party. I would say this is a bit unlikely for a nationalist, religious, and communist party to come to any major conclusions.
Meretz – agrees with the Geneva Convention and believes that Jews and Palestinians can agree on the borders, willing to give up more than what was decided at Camp David. This party has 5 seats
Green Leaf – Understands marijuana to be the answer to the conflict. How can this be you ask? With the opening of the Egyptian border, it was estimated that 10 tons of pot was brought up north. And for the first time, there where 2 weeks of calm. This party has 0 seats.
Shinui – A party focused on the separation of religion and state. This is the 3rd largest party in the Knesset with 15 seats and was a hit in the last election. Unfortunately Shinui has absolutely nothing for the duration of its office and is expected to have 3 to 0 seats in the upcoming elections.
Labor – Focusing on the main issues of the social-economic status of Israel. Unfortunately, nobody cares. This election in the eyes of Israel is about borders, but the labor party is all about closing social gaps. Their popularity is going down. The slogan for the Labor party translated into English is “The times has come” meaning – forget the other big-ticket issues, the time has come to feed the poor. Regrettably because of this, Labor is getting forgotten in the poles.

In The Center:
Kadima – Ariel Sharon recently broke away from the Likud party to create Kadima. This party is pretty much an enigma wrapped in a question mark. Now, Sharon will not be heading it up, but Ehud Olmert will be, Sharon’s next in line. There is no policy or platform and what they are about is unknown. But also this brand new party has no ideological baggage holding it to certain ideals, so there is a freedom none of the other parties are allowed. Also it has been proven clear with Israeli politics that party policies cannot be trusted, especially with Sharon’s plans. Kadima is expected to win the next elections.

On The Right:
Israel Beytenu – This party's goal is to have as small of an Arab population as possible, except its ideas on how to achieve this are different than most. They would like to give back a lot of the Galilee and most of the West Bank to Palastine (areas in Israel that are mostly occupied by Israeli Arabs) and expand the areas around most of the settlements. This is a center party because both members of the right and left support it. The right because it means more Arabs out of Israel and the left because it gives more land than the Labor party.
Likud – Runs on the platform of stopping terror, violence, and incitement. This is the one and only platform that Israelis are uniformly concerned with and so they are doing very well with 26 seat now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likud
National Union Party – This party was the strength behind the anti-withdrawal of the settlements struggle. They are truly against giving anything to the Palestinians.
Herut - Running on a platform to expel all Arabs.
Jewish National Front – Wants a completely religiously Jewish state and anyone not supporting that out of it.