Thanks for an interesting insight into Israeli politics.
Mashie Niblick
1 year ago
All the fault of PR.
Samir Iker
1 year ago
Politicians, like cockroaches, seem to behave pretty much the same everywhere in the World, and as uniformly difficult to stamp out.
Charles Hedges
1 year ago
Can the Israeli politicians behave they way they do because Israel’s existance is not threatened any more. Iraq, Syria and Egypt are no longer a threat to Israel and PLO terrorism has finished: there are no Munich’s or Entebbe’s.
Could the lack of threat and accords with countries like UAE lead to the decline of Israel because there are no longer threats which force Israelis to ignore minor differences, being childish and work togethr?
john cohen
1 year ago
very simplistic article. I don’t like Netanyahu, I won’t vote for him, but being against him and pretending that he is some sort of crime lord, while obvious crimes on the other side are not investigated, has provided a cover for the other side to do nothing to deal with the pressing issues here in Israel
These issues include a perceived lack of safety for citizens in (pre-67) Israel, a tremendous housing crise, a medical system that has no funds for mri machines, ultrasounds, hospital beds, or doctors, and a growing perception that many of the “guardians of basic democratic norms,” have little belief in them.
And who has been presided over said failures, if not the prime-minister for last 12 years…
Christopher Barclay
1 year ago
It seems that Israelis have forgotten that they are surrounded by millions who would like to kill every one of them. Or perhaps they believe that they are now invincible.
Rafi Stern
1 year ago
In the last four elections I couldn’t understand the “anyone but Bibi” bottomless hatred of the left-wing for Netanyahu. The disgraceful behaviour of the opposition ever since the establishment of the Bennett-Lapid government has brought me over to their side on this issue even if I differ with them on many others.
Warren Trees
1 year ago
“…sought to undermine the legitimacy of the new Government and to obstruct any and all legislation regardless of the merits — in a manner more reminiscent of Gingrich and McConnell…” I stopped reading after this. The author is obviously jaded and oblivious to the U.S. constitution, so why read any further about Israel’s?
mark taha
1 year ago
Israel needs fixed term general elections with referenda on major issues.
That wouldn’t help when every government is a coalition. Bennett was for the last few weeks precisely the lame-duck prime-minister that such a system would inevitably create with no way out until the next election.
Thanks for an interesting insight into Israeli politics.
All the fault of PR.
Politicians, like cockroaches, seem to behave pretty much the same everywhere in the World, and as uniformly difficult to stamp out.
Can the Israeli politicians behave they way they do because Israel’s existance is not threatened any more. Iraq, Syria and Egypt are no longer a threat to Israel and PLO terrorism has finished: there are no Munich’s or Entebbe’s.
Could the lack of threat and accords with countries like UAE lead to the decline of Israel because there are no longer threats which force Israelis to ignore minor differences, being childish and work togethr?
very simplistic article. I don’t like Netanyahu, I won’t vote for him, but being against him and pretending that he is some sort of crime lord, while obvious crimes on the other side are not investigated, has provided a cover for the other side to do nothing to deal with the pressing issues here in Israel
These issues include a perceived lack of safety for citizens in (pre-67) Israel, a tremendous housing crise, a medical system that has no funds for mri machines, ultrasounds, hospital beds, or doctors, and a growing perception that many of the “guardians of basic democratic norms,” have little belief in them.
And who has been presided over said failures, if not the prime-minister for last 12 years…
It seems that Israelis have forgotten that they are surrounded by millions who would like to kill every one of them. Or perhaps they believe that they are now invincible.
In the last four elections I couldn’t understand the “anyone but Bibi” bottomless hatred of the left-wing for Netanyahu. The disgraceful behaviour of the opposition ever since the establishment of the Bennett-Lapid government has brought me over to their side on this issue even if I differ with them on many others.
“…sought to undermine the legitimacy of the new Government and to obstruct any and all legislation regardless of the merits — in a manner more reminiscent of Gingrich and McConnell…”
I stopped reading after this. The author is obviously jaded and oblivious to the U.S. constitution, so why read any further about Israel’s?
Israel needs fixed term general elections with referenda on major issues.
That wouldn’t help when every government is a coalition. Bennett was for the last few weeks precisely the lame-duck prime-minister that such a system would inevitably create with no way out until the next election.