Are Israelis really suffering from collective amnesia? Is the country that small that you don't have any new politicians to elad you? Or are you all just going through a collective 90's flashback, with Bibi vs. Barak, yet again? Whatever happend to "the smartest people on earth"? I mean, I am rooting for Livni simply because she is someone new at this point. Stop recycling your politicians, Israelis. It's bad form!
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Well, you are right.
No young and smart politicians here.
I guess you are not familiar with the other garbage that we have here
(Ruhama Avraham, Yehiel Hazan, Tzipi Hotobeli…).
Tzipi Livni is the default, so i hope.
The Israelis seem like they are doing all right, to me. That guy Olmert was a disaster but he didn’t do as much harm as he might have in another country. I don’t really get the Israeli system, but I can’t think of another country that could have endured what Israel has endured, and remained stable. Certainly not the US. So, no second guessing them from me.
From your article:
and he plans to take a detour on what Palestinians had hoped would be a U.S.-paved road to statehood.
Which Palestinians believed that? lol.
Seriously, do these al Reuters reporters just attribute their own thoughts to Palestinians or something? Or are Palestinians secretly placing faith in the US, while at the same time burning American flags, protesting the US in the streets, and taking Americans hostage?
Also Likud is leading in the polls. Why??? I can not understand why they would want bibi to be prime minister again. He is the anti-Obama for pete’s sake!! Come on!!
“He is the anti-Obama for pete’s sake!!”
Why does everybody have to be pro-Obama?
What did Obama do to earn it?
He took a lot of credit without down payment and promised to pay with high interest.
That is about it.
i just love how tzipi time and time again always makes abu el geit look like a school boy. all those years at the un didn’t do him any good…. i guess he was way too busy shmoozing with the falafel guys on 2nd ave.
“Seriously, do these al Reuters reporters just attribute their own thoughts to Palestinians or something? ”
I think it’s a German thing. Have you ever read the German newspapers? It’s a study in hand wringing!
Bibi is OK – he managed to concede very little to the Palestinian terrorist organizations despite being under tremendous pressure, and at the same time he executed several important steps in the economic sphere to further free Israel’s economy from its socialist legacy.
Compared to Rabin who pushed back the Palestinians at least a century if not more, and caused untold grief to thousands of terror victims and their families, or to Barak who handed Lebanon to Hizballah and basically instigated the Second Lebanon War as well as the Third (there will be another war, obviously), or Olmert who was so blatantly corrupt it is amazing that a lightening bolt did not strike him down years ago…than Bibi is actually OK.
So, I’m guessing that relatively speaking, Bibi is a good choice for Israelis.
Also Likud is leading in the polls. Why??? I can not understand why they would want bibi to be prime minister again. He is the anti-Obama for pete’s sake!! Come on!!
And? Please, kindly explain the logic behind this statement. Avoid things along the line of “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy”, and “The Great Messiah Obama”. It is not difficult. Trying to explain how Obama is a great president with great internal and international policies is… how shall I put this… not relevant.
We live in Israel, not in the United States of America. We have shared interests, but we couldn’t care less about your internal issues – they’re yours to handle, not ours. We focus instead on your international policies, on how said policies affect *us*, and we have reason to dislike Obama in that line – his line toward Iran seems like it will continue the back-and-forth delay game that will bring Iran the bomb, and in fact I suspect that Obama’s “carrots” will end up funding Iran’s “sticks” as its oil revenues falter.
Toward Israel, Obama looks like he will continue the tradition set by Democrat presidents before him – direct intervention in our internal policies, somehow believing them to be the mystical Key to the Middle-East.
And economically, Bibi is a conservative. Obama is not.
So, just why should Bibi like Obama?
This is not to say that Netanyahu will not find common ground with the US President Barack Obama – in the relations between our two countries, he will have to. But I much prefer a strong negotiator and a leader who puts our own country first rather than a corrupt mop who can be ordered around by anyone capable of speaking – such as Ehud Olmert.
Tzipi Livni currently leads a party of misfits. She’ll have a very hard time to change what Sharon first drew together (a band of rebels who couldn’t quite fit in their parties) and what Olmert kept together (a band of opportunists who had nothing in common save their craving for a political seat), regardless of how capable she is herself. And she isn’t all that capable. A nice person, overall, but rather mediocre. Her first impression as a political leader was an embarrassing failure (her attempt to form a government when elected the leader of Kadima), and the shadow of that failure will remain with her.
But Sandmonkey… Rest assured that the battle in Israel is not between Bibi and Barak. Barak is dead. Barak, in fact, is a walking zombie. His current campaign is an attempt at reverse-negativity (IE – start with Barak’s negative images in an attempt to disarm them later in the campaign). So far, all he’d achieved is to make people wonder if Labor’s billboards were in fact funded by their opponents.
Bibi… Bibi’s old. Bibi’s a professional politician. But he’s not small-time and petty, nor is he all that corrupt. He’s got his fair share of economic cred as well, which is something Israel needs at this point.
It’s either Bibi and the New-Old Likud, or Tzipi and the very much old layabouts of Kadima. All the drop-outs of the various political parties of Israel. Kadima is not something *new*.
It’s merely a very horrible car with a paint-job.
Well said Roman, I quite agree with you and you have put it much better in words than I could have done.
Livni is nothing but Olmert Part II. She is a horror, and I hope she is not elected. Bibi has situated himself as nothing but a slightly right of center version of Livni, which is almost as bad, in some ways worse (because historically, only those who are considered ‘right wing’ have been able to shove suicidal agreements down Israel’s throat). Barak is just a total disaster altogether.
So in conclusion, Aryeh Eldad for PM! Hatikvah all the way!
Actually, recycling politicians is very smart. That way, you have to pay the high pension and salary to fewer people.
(But seriously, you’re right. I have no idea who I’m going to vote for)