Tag Archives: Israeli politics

Corona, political infighting, is there any Good News for Friday?

Posted on 13 March 2020 by

The news has been inexorably bad for the last few weeks and I have been in no mood to write anything (in case you hadn’t noticed). The 3rd round of Israeli elections yielded exactly the same results as the second … Continue reading →

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Israel turns into Italy – Knesset dissolves 7 weeks after the elections

Posted on 30 May 2019 by

Israel turned into the Middle Eastern version of Italy tonight as Binyamin Netanyahu failed to form a coalition, and the Knesset voted to dissolve itself – a mere 7 weeks or so after the last elections. As far as I … Continue reading →

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Israeli National Elections 2019

Posted on 9 April 2019 by

Today is election day, in fact as of this writing it is nearly over. I have not written about the elections at all for a few reasons: As I have mentioned frequently lately, we have been dealing with a family … Continue reading →

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The Kotel Kerfuffle

Posted on 28 June 2017 by

The latest crisis began when the government backtracked on its decision * to create a state-recognized pluralistic prayer section at the Western Wall. *Edit: The backtracking was not on creating a pluralistic prayer section. THAT EXISTS ALREADY and has not been … Continue reading →

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A solution for Amona? Or more trouble ahead

Posted on 7 December 2016 by

Since I wrote about the possible evacuation of Amona a couple of weeks ago, the “Arrangements Law” or Regulation Bill or Settlements Bill (take your pick), intended to regulate once and for all the legal status of the settlements and … Continue reading →

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The dysfunctional and incompetent Israeli government

Posted on 8 June 2016 by

The world’s media and diplomats love to paint Binyamin Netanyahu as “hardline”, Avigdor Liberman as to the right of Attila the Hun, and the cabinet in general as “the most right wing ever!“. All I can say to that is … Continue reading →

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