A Worthy Fifth?
What we can expect as Israel faces its fifth election in almost four years.
Shmuel Rosner is an Israeli columnist, editor, and researcher. He is the editor of the research and data-journalism website themadad.com, and is the political editor of the Jewish Journal.
What we can expect as Israel faces its fifth election in almost four years.
For the past four years, Israel has not made much progress in solving even one of its main problems.
A government that lasts only one year should be a failure…unless that government achieved something highly beneficial and irreversible.
To make it simple, the questions involved are what is good for women, what is good for religious soldiers, what is good for the military. These are three separate questions, each of which puts the discussion on a different path.
If young people are less sympathetic to Israel, then all we have to do is wait, as the old generation of sympathetic Americans make room for a younger one of unsympathetic Americans.
If young people are less sympathetic to Israel, then all we have to do is wait, as the old generation of sympathetic Americans make room for a younger one of unsympathetic Americans.
The main argument against the opposition is substantive: If you support the troops, why would you vote against the bill?
Her death is a tragedy. The story of her post-death is a farce.