commentarymagazine.com - 2/7/2009
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Four days before Election Day in Israel and the race seems to be tightening up (see here and many other places). But what really puzzles those observers isn’t the rise of Avigdor Lieberman’s Israel Beiteinu party, or the decline of Labor. It is the fact that Israel, traditionally a ...
normblog.typepad.com - 2/4/2009
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normblog.typepad.com —
This is a post about war crimes in
Gaza and the widespread public outrage over them directed...
at Israel. Since it is a long post, I begin by providing a brief map of what is to follow. In Part 1...
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One-Eyed in Gaza
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
haaretz.com - 2/8/2009
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haaretz.com —
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 ...
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Kahane won - Haaretz - Israel News
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Decision day approaches in Israel
Power Line —
... If Likud finishes first and Israel Beiteinu third, you would think that these two right-of-center parties will be able to form a government with Netanyahu as Prime Minister. But, as Shmuel Rosner suggests, Israeli politics are so fragmented now (for example, Shas, a religious party, could finish a strong fifth) that Likud and Israel Beiteinu may find it difficult to form a government even if both make strong showings next week. ...
Israeli election primer
Yourish.com —
... does all this tell us? That Bibi and Barak both learned from their mistakes, or that they function well only when someone else is the boss? If the second, let’s vote for Tzipi, who will be the boss of Bibi and Ehud, for a perfect government. On the other hand, if she also needs first to fail at the top before doing fantastically one slot below, she’s the last of the three we should be voting for.
Shmuel Rosner argues that Avigdor Lieberman might be the most interesting candidate.
And if this is a personality contest, it’s quite ...
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