ODA focused on poverty and unemployment The results of the elections to Israel’s 18th Knesset clearly bolstered the far Right, which won 65 of the parliament’s 120 seats. This outcome is partly due to the paralysis that beset Ehud Olmert’s…
Category: Israeli elections 2009
War in Gaza: The Real Test for Meretz and the Israeli Left
After the first and second Intifadas, and the first and second Lebanon wars, one would expect the Israeli left to come out unequivocally against the war on Gaza and denounce Israel’s brutal use of military force to dictate political processes.…