Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who had met with the Conference in New York just weeks prior to the Leadership Mission, addressed the delegation about relations with the Palestinians , positive
War and violence always have a direct effect on elections. Wars account for dramatic shifts in voter preferences, and radical leaders and parties often poll much higher after a round of sharp violence than in normal times. Minority ethnic groups are therefore often able to sway the balance of power between major competing forces. This appears to have been precisely what has happened in Israel’s recent election. Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud Party and the even harder right Avigdor Lieberman and his Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel is Our Home) party achieved a dominant result that ...
After very close Israeli elections, many analysts seem to feel Likud head Benjamin Netanyahu will get the nod to form the next Israeli government. Though Likud lost to Kadima by a small number of votes, Likud's right-wing bloc as a whole won a majority. Many in the international community are holding out hope that Tzipi Livni, the head of Kadima, will prevail and become Prime Minister because they view her as the candidate of peace. In reality however, Livni, while speaking of negotiations, represents continuity with past Israeli policies of the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, just ...
Right and left –wing Israeli rhetoric could not smokescreen the fact that Israel’s latest elections were competed among the right, the center right and the far right, or between the extremists and the ultra-extremists.Dust of Tuesday’s voting battle settled down and the battle of forming the next Israeli government has just begun. With Benjamin Netanyahu poised for premiership and Avigdor Lieberman, leader of a “racist and fascist” party (as condemned by Talia Sasson of the Merez party) very well positioned to be the king or queen maker of the next ruling ...
WJC Urges EU to Ban Far-Right Parties The World Jewish Congress urged Europe's governments to consider a ban on far-right parties, at the end of a conference in Budapest.
Ahmadinejad loved like one of their own How do the World leaders relate to a man you would not invite home for dinner? Take a look at this photo feature on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a man willing to create another Holocaust and destroy Israel. The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has denied the Holocaust in public. In media he has expressed a desire […]
Lets give them away for «peace»: Israel and Czechoslovakia Nazi-Germany and the West traded Sudetenland for peace in 1938. In a similar manner the Islamic World and the West want to trade Israel for «peace» in 2009. Both the rhetoric and the game plan seems to be the same. Lets take a closer look on what happened in 1938, and the game our politicians […]
