I Don’t Get It
Kadima won the Israeli election. Apparently, Labor will be making up a large portion of the government as well, so much that some say Peretz could become prime minister. I realize there was low voter turnout but to my mind, this spells disaster. How can Israelis think Kadima and Labor are a recipe for success? Or am I completely wrong to be worried?
posted by Esther @ 10:14 AM
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esther- i'm with you. i haven't liked what has been going on since last early summer. people who voted for these parties probably won't see the dangers until it is too late.
IW, since no party is delivering anything anyone can like or believe, I'm sure it seemed futile to even bother. Think of it here in the states when two people are running and you dislike both. Doesn't motivate you to actually go vote. Labor is the leftist party.
DM, who could blame them? They voted for Likud and suddenly, Sharon turned the party into leftists. That had to have felt like a huge betrayal.
it couldn't have been too much of a betrayal- they voted for kadima.
I confess my ignorance as to Israeli politics. But low turnout is a matter of serious concern, IMO. I thought that Israelis went to the polls in large numbers. Maybe I am wrong.
Apparently seeing images on international television of the IDF forcing Jewish people out of their homes juxtaposed next to images of Hamas celebrating in the streets that their campaign of suicide bombing had delivered the Gaza Strip to them isn't enough to dissuade anyone from voting for more of the same.
I agree with Mr Beamish.
People just don't see much of a solution into the problem anymore.
We have two young Israelis visiting our blog now and then and they feel, very much depressed.
Could the loss of Sharon have put the Israeli people into some kind of funk?
I can't imagine a low turnout with the threat of literally your next-door neighbor wanting to kill you.
I understand fatigue, but not apathy.
Sharon and Peres put many Israelis into a "funk." Sharon was elected on a right wing, pro-settlement platform and reversed sides, then took his crooks from Likud and other parties, made a new one. must I go on?
Pere's "new middle east" meant that there was to be no patriotism, no values etc.
If that's the case...
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