Who says the Kadima party will hold primaries then?
Kadima's legal advisor Eitan Haberman revealed in the meeting that the party's internal courts recommended holding another vote to approve holding a primary at all, because of legal problems with the first vote. Haberman said a decision would be made soon on whether to agree to the court's request.
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As far as I am concerned, Olmert can stay in for a long time. If you read Amnon Lord's column last Friday in Makor Rishon, he attacked people (like myself) who say the least bad gov't for Israel (meaning least bad for YESHA) is a weak, discredited Leftist coalition like the one that is in power now. If Netanyahu and the Likud get in we will find ,as in the past, the only policies that they can implement that other parties can't are (1) destroying settlments, or at least knocking down ma'achzim (2) cutting religious funding (3) doing large scale releases of terrorists a-la-Tannenbaum (4) further entrenching the Supreme Court "rule-of-law-mafia" as did Tzachi HaNegbi when he was Justice Minister (Bibi has attacked Friedman's proposed reforms).
Thus, the Likud is the most effective Leftist party in the Knesset. Who needs them? Of course, Amnon Lord attacked this view, but he doesn't explain why he thinks they will do any better than this gang that is in power.
The ruling clique of the Likud, i.e. Bibi, Steve Shalom and Limor Livnat all supported destroying Gush Katif, Bibi has brought Leftist-defeatist generals Yossi Peled and Uzi Dayan in, and he is talking to Meir Shitrit and Dan Meridor.
Don't forget it was the Likud/MAFDAL/NU gov't that accepted the "roadmap" with a settlement freeze and acceptance of a "Palestinian State" and Israeli security policy is set in the White House and Pentagon, not in this country.
In any event, there is no longer a "right-wing bloc" to form a gov't, the Haredim who were part of it were tossed out by the Likud and MAFDAL/NU (remember the filthy deal with Lapid's Shinui?) and they are getting more now from the Left (e.g. re-establishment of Ministry of Religious Affairs and dropping the mandatory core curriculum for secular studies in order to receive state funding), so why should they support a Likud gov't.
I predict no party will get any more than 25 seats in any event, so forget about a "right-wing" pro-Zionist, pro-YESHA gov't. All we can do is hold on and I am counting on you people in YESHA to lead the way to defending the yishuvim there (UNLIKE WHAT MOETZET YESHA and the MAFDAL/NU DID DURING THE GUSH KATIF CRISIS). We just need to put our heads down and wait for better days, meanwhile sitting out the upcoming elections to prevent the worst possible outcome....Bibi as Prime Minister (wait 'till they start investigating him!).
On the one hand, Y Ben David, you are right to be worried about the prospects of a "right" government: it is a long-ago observed feature of Israeli political system (and of some others as well) that "right-wing" politicians are more likely to be able to produce concessions and justify them to the public. In Israel it was always Likud governments that ceded territories. However, I don't expect Netanyahu to be popular enough to do anything of the sort. In fact, I won't be surprised if he stays in office for less time than Olmert. So, either way, I think your concern is premature.
Yisrael, this guy Aryeh Amihay you discovered had a very astute post on how Olmert may actually be fooling everybody with his resignation.
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