Journalist Yair Lapid has announced he’s quitting his TV show and entering politics. This is going to be the shake-up Israeli politics has been waiting for — a chance to re-align itself away from the settler movement and the hilltop youth and back towards focussing on the peace process, on work inside Green Line Israel, on education and healthcare. Lapid isn’t going to be the perfect politician, but his influence in politics, like his father’s before him, will, on balance, be a very positive one. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.
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The frustrations of the social justice protests and lack of progress on the peace process seem to be coming out, according to Ha’aretz: A new political party headed by Yair Lapid, Channel 2′s Friday news anchorman, would become the second largest party in the Knesset, should the journalist decide to enter politics, a recent poll conducted by Israel Radio revealed on Thursday. According to the poll, if Lapid chooses to [...]
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Bibi Netanyahu has announced primary elections for Likud earlier than expected, perhaps in the lead up to a general election perfectly timed to happen immediate before the US general election in November. Interesting times.
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The recent housing protests have breathed new life into the Israeli Labour Party, perhaps even saving it from devastation at the next election.
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Akiva Eldar writes in Ha’aretz that somehow, Bibi’s various policies have united the whole of Israel against him, and now is the time for him to go.
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Jeffrey Goldberg, writing about Michele Bachmann for Bloomberg: Bachmann has built her foreign-policy platform on the nuance-free defense of Israel. She does this not because Israel is a strategic ally, or because it’s a democracy, but because the Bible states that God will curse those who betray it. At a recent meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, she said, “I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that [...]
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If you’re Bob Brown, you’re thinking the world might be coming to an end right about now. It seems the Greens are just as fractured and embattled with insider politics as everyone else, and Brown’s desperately trying to keep it all together. This morning’s Australian (see right) is adorned with a huge warning from Brown to Lee Rhiannon and the wider Greens membership: let’s not screw up this wonderful ‘balance [...]
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Is Bob Ellis crazy, or will we, in March, look to him as some kind of incredible electoral prophet? I alone in all of Australia think Labor will hold government, in a perhaps hung parliament, in New South Wales on March 24. And I’ll tell you why. My prediction anyway, and it may change, is: 43.5 per cent to Labor, 49 per cent to the Coalition, 6.5 per cent to [...]
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I’ve just finished reading Confessions of a Faceless Man, AWU National Secretary Paul Howes’s insightful diary from the 2010 federal election campaign. Written entertainingly, Howes is keen to give his version with brutal honesty; he isn’t keen to shy away. He says that former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was “simply a populist, unwilling to tackle the hard issues,” describes the difficulties he, and members of the ALP Caucus had with [...]
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The Age features former Howard minister Peter Reith reviewing John Howard’s new autobiography, Lazarus Rising. He clearly loves his ex-PM and persistently stays on-side of Howard. He dissects much of book’s content, almost chapter-by-chapter, and does an excellent job of defending their record. Whether it’s the GST, his relationship with Peter Costello or his handling of the waterfront dispute, Iraq, WorkChoices or Tampa; you name it, Reith defends it. Perhaps [...]
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