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Posted in: Op-Ed: Reforms vital to Israeli political stability
12/17/08 04:36 PM
The small parties don't represent small sectorial interests as stated. Many Likud voters agree with Shas values and many Labor voters identify with Meretz. Their problem is that they're not allowed to vote for more than one list. The direct vote for prime minister was a good thing for democracy in Israel in that it allowed voters direct influence on that high post, and it would be good to have direct votes for (almost) all the cabinet ministers, and likewise for Knesset members by regional representation.
Posted in: Likud in front, despite far-right presence
12/16/08 05:18 PM
Friedman & Kowalsky are definitely right - the article is leftist-slanted. 1) Despite Feiglin the Likud is leading in the polls?! Maybe because of Feiglin! 2) The phrase "tarred with an extremist hue". Leave out the word "tarred". 3) The phrase "about half the Likud Knesset faction is likely to oppose any peace moves Netanyahu may seek" reveals that the author thinks that giving land to the Arabs is a "peace move". So far that sort of thing has brought about exploding busses and Kassam rockets on Sderot. That's not peace. Perhaps Susser can be forgiven for his leftist views in a news analysis. But he has also written errors of fact. He wrote: "The Jewish Leadership movement he heads advocates an authoritarian theocracy, expulsion of Palestinians and non-recognition of Israel's Supreme Court. In short, it rejects Israel's secular democracy." The truth is: 1) Feiglin supports not "authoritarian theocracy" but rather "Jewish democracy". He feels that Jewish communities should decide the major issues on their own, with as little intervention as possible from the central Israeli government. 2) Feiglin encourages voluntary Arab emigration to Dubai and Canada, etc. where there is a need for those professions that Arabs excell in. Polls show that many Arabs in Israel want to emigrate. Forcible expulsion, on the other hand, Feiglin has written, is feasible only in wartime. 3) Feiglin is aposed to the tyranny of the Israeli Supreme Court. The Israeli system has no "checks and ballances" to withstrain the Court, and it holds absolute power over everything in the State. Their members sellect their own successors. So Feiglin is the democrat here, not the Court.
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