The 7-year itch comes again?
Every seven years, Israel's Right implodes and we get a government of the Left.
In 1992, the Right was so splintered that we lost Yitzchak Shamir (who had done a great job of holding off Bush-Baker) and got Yitzchak Rabin and Oslo instead.
In 1999, the Right brought down Netanyahu I and we got Ehud Barak, Camp David and the intifada instead.
In 2006, Ariel Sharon ran Left, dismembered the Likud, and we got Ehud K. Olmert, rockets from Gaza and the Second Lebanon War.
In 2013... is Naftali Bennett about to snatch a Leftist government from the jaws of 61 Rightist seats?
Labels: Knesset elections 2013
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:49 PM
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This reminds me of those idiotic "coincidence" stories we used to read in grade school about the supposedly maxing similarities between the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations.
Netanyahu has been systematically defecating on the right since the Likud primaries (actually, since the primaries before that, keeping Feiglin out), and Otzma L'Israel didn't pass the threshold. In the meantime, there is no one to talk to on the so-called "peace process", and the public concurs.
For years and years we've been told that nothing could be done to straighten out an increasingly societally destructive status quo on religious matters and the long-outgrown Haredi deferment, on which there is also a consensus.
Now is the time to level that particular playing field. Maybe Jabotinsky was right that we can only focus on so many insoluble political problems at once. Maybe this is the time for the coalition that can make changes that have been needed for so long. If they need to call elections again in 2 years, so be it.
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