With opinion polls indicating that only 18% of the electorate was concerned with the Palestinian problem, Labor, the party of Yitzhak Rabin and the Oslo Accords, refrained from even mentioning the peace process, lest it alienate potential voters. Labor’s current leader, Shelly Yachimovich, superseded the fatalism of her predecessor, Ehud Barak, who maintained that the Palestinian conflict has no solution, with the politics of denial; she refused even to acknowledge that there is a problem.
民调显示，只有18%的选民担心巴勒斯坦问题，但拉宾所属、签署了奥斯陆协议的工党仍保持着克制，甚至没有提出和平进程，唯恐影响选情。工党现任领导人亚基莫维奇（Shelly Yachimovich）以否定的政治抛弃了其前任巴拉克（Ehud Barak）的宿命论（认为巴勒斯坦冲突不存在解决方案），她甚至拒绝承认存在巴勒斯坦问题。