Anders
01-12-2006, 05:03 AM
Yes I have read the left behind serie ;)
But this thread is about the next election in Israel. Which is going to be very interesting.
First major event may just have happened.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E261C662-58E2-45A1-88F8-A1234FE66235.htm
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=96497
Yesterday Netanyahu ordered the ministers, who are still members of Likud, to resign and four of them refused, among those Silvan Shalom, the foreign minister. They are willing to leave the government but will NOT be ordered from Sharon. So this is not as much a matter of ideology but of authority within Likud. This could be a huge blow to Netanyahu as a reliable leader. If he cannot control his own party (or rather makes decisions that the ministers disagree with enough to defy) how could he ever lead a country?
Now there is a very good side and a smaller bad side to this. The good thing (besides Kadima much more likely to be the winner) about this is that internal split within Likud will weaken it even more before the election. Kadima and especially Olmert now doesn´t have to play tough against a strong Likud. It would make the likelyhood of a strike against Irans nuclear facilities less likely.
The small problem this can cause is some rumblings between the two sides of Kadima. I thnk Peres has his eyes set on the Foreign Minister post. As long as Silvan Shalom has that post he can not secure it before the election and may go back to Labour.
But this thread is about the next election in Israel. Which is going to be very interesting.
First major event may just have happened.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E261C662-58E2-45A1-88F8-A1234FE66235.htm
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=96497
Yesterday Netanyahu ordered the ministers, who are still members of Likud, to resign and four of them refused, among those Silvan Shalom, the foreign minister. They are willing to leave the government but will NOT be ordered from Sharon. So this is not as much a matter of ideology but of authority within Likud. This could be a huge blow to Netanyahu as a reliable leader. If he cannot control his own party (or rather makes decisions that the ministers disagree with enough to defy) how could he ever lead a country?
Now there is a very good side and a smaller bad side to this. The good thing (besides Kadima much more likely to be the winner) about this is that internal split within Likud will weaken it even more before the election. Kadima and especially Olmert now doesn´t have to play tough against a strong Likud. It would make the likelyhood of a strike against Irans nuclear facilities less likely.
The small problem this can cause is some rumblings between the two sides of Kadima. I thnk Peres has his eyes set on the Foreign Minister post. As long as Silvan Shalom has that post he can not secure it before the election and may go back to Labour.