Comments on: Israeli Palestinian party that seeks democracy for all citizens risks disqualification

By: delia

delia — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Alistair Crooke at Conflicts Forum has a new piece posted today. If anyone's interested:

http://conflictsforum.org/2009/why-the-gaza-calm-crashed/

By: Jim Haygood

Jim Haygood — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

In the U.S., interloper political parties are marginalized by the massive state subsidies for the ruling Depublicrats.

When a third party actually threatens the Establishment, its candidate usually withdraws on his own volition -- e.g. Ross Perot, 'they threatened to disrupt my duaghter's wedding.' LOL

Israel's attempted disqualification of Balad based on their platform goes way beyond this, and gives the lie to AIPAC/Hillary Clinton propaganda that Israel represents 'American values.' This is same unsound basis which has been used to marginalize Hamas.

'Edited democracy' is a disaster, as the pall of smoke over Gaza shows.

By: slaney black

slaney black — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Balad is good, but Hadash is better. I think this pretty much shows that Israel is going the way of Turkey (which is pretty much the pro-Western mirror image of Iran) – a constitutional democracy in form but a far-right nationalist military oligarchy in practice.

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054580.html

Don't disqualify the Arab lists
By Haaretz Editorial
Tags: kadima, elections

The Central Elections Committee will deliberate on three petitions today calling for the disqualification of Balad's candidate list (two of them filed by the far-right parties Yisrael Beiteinu and the National Union), and on a petition against United Arab List-Ta'al's election list (filed by the National Union). In recent years it has turned into an indecent ceremony on election eve: Right-wing parties try to ban Balad or United Arab List-Ta'al, as part of their efforts to get headlines. This time the "ceremony" will be acted out under the shadow of the caustic debate on the military operation in the Gaza Strip.