Elections

INTO THE FRAY: Time to bar the Joint List

 For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column Time to bar the Joint List (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag ‪#‎IntoFray) The tenets of “defensive democracy” require Israel to act against those who would use its democracy to undermine the very foundations on which it is founded It appears this week on […]

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INTO THE FRAY: In Israel & America – Choreographed coups with the law as a prop

For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column In Israel & America – Choreographed coups with the law as a prop (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag ‪#‎IntoFray) Despite the dramatic physical, societal and political differences between Israel and the US, in both countries a very similar—and disturbing—assault on the fabric of […]

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INTO THE FRAY: Israel’s dysfunctional electorate?

For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column Israel’s dysfunctional electorate? (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag ‪#‎IntoFray) Despite its many undoubted merits, democracy has one glaring detriment. There is never a dictator to blame for the fate that befalls the people. They alone are responsible for whatever befalls them.   It […]

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INTO THE FRAY: A strange thing happened on the way to the polling booth

For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column A strange thing happened on the way to the polling booth (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag ‪#‎IntoFray)  Arguably, Netanyahu’s gravest strategic miscalculation was not to call elections in May 2016 rather than capitulate to Liberman’s demand to be given the Defense portfolio.  It […]

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INTO THE FRAY: Sept. 17: Will the Right snatch defeat from the jaws of victory…again?

      For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column Sept. 17: Will the Right snatch defeat from the jaws of victory…again? (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag ‪#‎IntoFray)   The continued existence of the Left as a viable force in Israeli politics, despite the manifest failure of its political credo, […]

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