Now that Meretz and Labor have banded together and don’t face any real danger, Odeh wants to take a small bite out of its electorate, not to swallow them, just a little bite to complete a 15-seat slate and carry out his vision to define the Joint List as the real social-political left.

And he’s doing so the same way left-wing leaders have worked through the generations, using the right quote and the right moment, and from the right poem.