haaretz.com - 2/8/2009
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Rabbi Meir Kahane can rest in peace: His doctrine has won. Twenty years after his Knesset list was disqualified and 18 years after he was murdered, Kahanism has become legitimate in public discourse. If there is something that typifies Israel's current murky, hollow election campaign, which ends ...
haaretz.com - 2/10/2009
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haaretz.com —
Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu declared victory in Tuesday's
parliamentary election as he addressed supporters in a speech...
early Wednesday, despite exit polls that predicted his party narrowly coming second to the ruling Kadima Party. Click here ...
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Netanyahu: Right wing, led by Likud, won a ...
haaretz.com - 2/10/2009
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haaretz.com —
Exit polls by Israel's three main television stations
on Tuesday night showed Kadima as the leader in...
the 2009 general elections, with Likud coming a narrow second. Channel 1, Channel 2 and Channel 10 polling of voters as they left the ballot box all ...
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Exit polls: Livni's Kadima leads in 2009 ...
spectator.co.uk - 2/8/2009
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spectator.co.uk —
I am hearing ever more alarming accounts of
the deepening attrition against British Jews in the wake...
of the incitement against Israel provoked by the war in Gaza. In addition to the record number of attacks upon Jewish individuals and institutions ...
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The jihad against Britain's Jews
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What's missing in Israeli policy
Corrente —
... On the eve of an election in Israel where Kahane's ideological heirs have become legitimized, it doesn't appear that alternative political approaches to the one that brought Cast Lead to Gaza are really on the table. Nevertheless, there are occasional valiant and well-intentioned attempts in the Israeli press to determine a different course for the future. But some if not most of these are frustratingly misguided. For example, ...
Israeli Election: Theodor Herzl vs. Meir Kahane (Kahane Wins)
TPMCafe —
... Today's second column is by Gideon Levy. He writes that the current election campaign demonstrates that the racist rabbi Meir Kahane, who favored expulsion of all the Arabs, is back big time. ...
Israeli Elections and US, Co-Dependent Warriors
Firedoglake —
... is the subject of a chilling essay by Gideon Levy who continues to speak with an honesty that is unknown here in the States either about Israel or about ourselves. ...
The Rise of Avigdor Lieberman
Antiwar.com Original —
... calls for outlawing the Arab parties. Not only Lieberman but also Livni and the "Left" chimed in, with Yisrael Beiteinu, the Lieberman outfit, setting the tone. Gideon Levy, writing in Ha'aretz, reminds us where we have seen this kind of thing before:"If [Rabbi Meir] Kahane were alive and running for the 18th Knesset, not only would his list not be banned, it would win many votes, as Yisrael Beiteinu is expected to do. The prohibited has become permitted, the ostracized is now accepted, the detestable has become the talented that's the slippery slope down which Israeli ...
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