Jack Ross:
It looks like we're going to have the best that could have been hoped
for, a unity government of the four large parties led by Livni. Last
night I was resigned to such led by Netanyahu; either way it wouldn't
last a year. I still think Livni will ultimately prove to be DeKlerk,
but now we're spared Netanyahu leading Israel the way of Rhodesia, and the very real dangers he represented of attacking Iran and putting up a fight against Obama.
Another friend demurs: DeKlerk? Livni is on record saying she wants to make the fence the new border. And she just bombed the s--t out of Gaza? Her party sought to ban 2 Arab parties from participating in today's election.
While Ross adds:
I see no reason why there shouldn't be a unity government. I think Peres knows that to ask Netanyahu to form the new government would be to forever bury the two-state solution, but he could still be old and bitter enough to do it.
Barhoum: All Israeli political parties have black record with the Palestinians
GAZA, (PIC)– Fawzi Barhoum, the spokesman of Hamas Movement in the Gaza Strip said on Tuesday that Hamas and the Palestinian people see no difference between Israeli political leaders as all of them are working to exterminate the Palestinian people.
In a statement he issued in reaction to the Israeli elections, and a copy of which was obtained by the PIC, Barhoum explained that the Palestinian people had experienced leaders of the Zionist criminality over the past 17 elections since the Hebrew state was illegally founded on occupied Palestinian lands in 1948, adding that the common denominator between all those leaders was the killing and displacement of Palestinian people.
"He who thinks there are differences between the Zionist occupation criminal leaders is wrong, all of them are terrorists and all of them seek to develop terror schemes against our people who are struggling for their rights," Barhoum said, stressing that a change of faces does not mean a change of policies [towards Palestinians].
In this regard, Barhoum pointed out that Hamas does not wager on the outcome of the Israeli elections and thus its programs take into account the Palestinian people's interests and aspirations rather than who is going to be in power in the Israeli occupation government.
He also stressed that the Zionist terror developed from the terrorism of gangs and militias [in the 1930s and 40s] into institutionalized terrorism that has developed into a culture of the Israeli society which explains the gains made by extremist groups and explains why Israeli leaders campaign for elections by shedding Palestinian blood.
Finally, Barhoum stressed that regardless of who will ascend to power in the Zionist entity, Hamas and the rest of the Palestinian resistance factions will remain faithful to Palestinian people's legal rights and national constants, in addition to defending the Palestinian land to last breath.
All Israeli political parties have black record with the Palestinians
He's right about the development of terrorist gangs into Israel state terror, calculated and fully institutionalized.
Livni as DeKlerk? Well, as compared to those who were her challengers, maybe. Even if she bent that way, she cannot possibly do it without a sea change of American public opinion, slowly rippling in. Both average USA citizens and average Israeli citizens
have to first recognize they are blind-folded by the MSM.
Funny, other observers, including some in Israel, are predicting a government led by Likud and Israel Beitenu based on exit polls. I guess we'll see.
Funny to see Philip's Idiots squabble. The fact remains that as long as the palestinian people practice terror as their only weapon of persuation, Israel will elect leaders who will fight.
The Palestinians seem to be a people who truly enjoy screwing themselves.