As we enter the fourth round of elections in two years, there exists a misconception that nothing has changed. The argument is that Bibi remains Bibi, and if the fourth round does not help him, we will go to a…
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Vote!
On January 15, Israel’s leading liberal newspaper Haaretz printed an unusual opinion piece. Unusual not just because it was printed in two languages, Hebrew and Arabic, which in itself was extraordinary – but also because of the content. The newspaper is doing…
A new left arrives in Israel
Translated from Haaretz Weekend Supplement (Hebrew), January 5, 2013 (by permission). 2645. That’s the number of votes the Daam Party received in the previous elections. But since the outbreak of social unrest, the socialist Daam party has become a hot trend in…
Riding the wave to the Knesset: The Daam campaign
One might think that these elections are meaningless. The results are ostensibly known in advance, like a repeat broadcast of a soccer match. There’s a feeling of defeatism in the air, and people relate to the rightwing as they might…
The Bibi-Lieberman Bombshell
Binyamin (Bibi) Netanyahu’s call for early elections initially evoked an instinctive response: Who needs this? The result of normal elections, scheduled for next fall, was predictable: Bibi could look forward to another four years as Prime Minister. He had split…