Al Jazeera analysis indicates that as the October 27 Israeli election approaches, the Gaza war has become central to domestic debate and accelerated a political shift to the right. Prime Minister Netanyahu has linked national security to the war to garner votes, while figures like far-right Finance Minister Smotrich and National Security Minister Ben-Gvir have expressed increasingly extreme views. For example, Smotrich called for "doing what we are doing in Gaza" in the West Bank, and Feiglin stated that "the enemy is Gaza, not Hamas." The analysis suggests that these statements are not fringe views but are aimed at portraying Palestinians as a "demographic and security problem" to win votes, leading the election to a competition over "who can most aggressively erase Palestinians."