Tuesday's elections could end Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political career

JALUD, West Bank — Israel's elections Tuesday could mark the end of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 's decades-long political career. But his legacy in the Israeli-occupied West Bank — of massive settlement expansion, the displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians and the empowerment of armed settler extremists — will likely endure, even if his opponents seek to rein it in. Israelis are deeply divided over Netanyahu's leadership and moral character, but they largely support settlement expansion and are opposed to a Palestinian state. So while Netanyahu's opponents have vowed to crack down on settler violence and remove the most contentious outposts, they are mostly against a two-state solution, seen internationally as the only realistic way to resolve the conflict. “There shouldn’t be any illusions,” said Mairav Zonszein, senior Israel analyst at the International Crisis Group. “At best, (a new government) would be able to slow down the extremely crazy acceleration that we’ve seen in the last four years of every aspect of Israel’s aggression in the occupied ter