Earlier today we asked how Obama will respond to an Israeli government that includes a fascist party that ran on a racist anti-democratic platform. The answer in one word – favorably. From Ha’aretz: U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Wood told…
It’s scary when Avigdor Lieberman starts looking like a reasonable centrist. The YNet article “Far rightists coming to Knesset” reveals that Baruch Marzel will be following National Union Knesset Member Michael Ben Ari into the government as his advisor. Baruch…
And what passes for left in Israel? Ehud Barak of Labor concedes defeat, a month after he coordinated the assault on a captive non-Jewish people that left 1300 dead, more than 400 of them children. The problem in a nutshell.
Israel’s rightwing shift is giving J Street more room to run in the US. Here’s Isaac Luria of J Street interviewing the great Akiva Eldar: … Labor is not in the mood to become number 3 or 4 in the…
Felson on the Arab minority in Israel getting dealt out of the electoral process: It occurs to me that we’re approaching a critical moment, with the patience and frustration of Israeli Arabs expiring (and with many of their fellow Israelis…
BF writes: “It seems like the most obvious thing about the Arab parties that you didn’t mention is the double irony of the ADL’s statement on the diversity of the electorate. Livni’s party was one of those that voted to…
The ADL seems to think it will be a Livni government: The national elections in Israel demonstrate that, at a time of war and stress, the vibrant democracy of the State of Israel has prevailed. We congratulate Tzipi Livni and…
MJ Rosenberg is saying in the LA Times and at Israel Policy Forum that the Israel lobby here doesn’t want a rightwing Israel. They want to be able to market Israel in the U.S. It’s hard to market a government…
Tzipi Livni and Benjamin Netanyahu have wasted no time to begin begging Avigdor Lieberman and Yisrael Beiteinu to join a possible Israeli government under their control. Yisrael Beiteinu finished third in yesterday’s election (see this great election results tool on…