The very smart Zionist Bernard Avishai is also predicting a Netanyahu government that thumbs its nose at Obama and gets out firehoses on the Israeli Arabs. Avishai offers two other scenarios, including a Livni government with Arab parties’ backing –…
Notwithstanding his smearing up and down the columns of the mainstream press a year and two back, Steve Walt is one of the most sober, calm, judicious voices in foreign policy that you will ever encounter–just what you’d expect of…
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi On the day Israelis went to the polls to elect a right-wing government that will include a party calling for…
The rightwing parties won a clear majority. 55 seats for Likud-Shas-and-Lieberman’s-party over 41 for Labor and Kadima. Of course no one will make a coalition with the Arab parties. Not that they could even overcome the center-left’s deficit.
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…
MJ Rosenberg will be blogging at the Israel Policy Forum’s new “Pulse” site this afternoon on the results of the Israeli election…
Peace Now is grim about the election. It says that in all likelihood four parties will poll between 15 and 25 seats in Knesset, with Lieberman’s racist Yisroel Beitenu party outpolling Labor. Peace Now: How do Tuesday’s Knesset elections shape…
A smart friend writes: Ethan Bronner of the Times writes a front-page piece on Avigdor Lieberman (“A Hard-Liner Gains Ground in Israel”) without mentioning racism or discrimination. No mention of the Haaretz report that he was a member of outlawed,…
This Tuesday Israelis will go to the polls to elect a new government. While the primary focus in the US is the horse race between Livni, Netanyahu and Barak to be the next Prime Minister, the real story of the…