On November\’s ballot, tucked among the local measures affecting only Los Angeles, is curious Measure R, a plan by the Los Angeles City Council to provide each of the 15 council members an extra $570,000 in pay.
Israeli politics were shaken to their core by dark horse newcomers belonging to a party few had heard of. Close to a quarter of a million Israelis voted for the Pensioners Party, also known as GIL (age), a party run by nonpoliticians that didn\’t even exist three months ago; a party founded only after the regular political parties ignored the pleas of its constituents and relegated their demands low on the totem poll.
All those people who say \”Munich\” reaffirms the universal truth that \”violence begets violence\” should think hard about the\n\nPalestinian elections, where violence begat an electoral sweep.\n\nSo much for universal truths.\n\nGandhi said, \”An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind,\” and in the long run, who knows, he may be proven right.\n\nBut in the near term, Hamas, an organization whose existence is rooted in hatred and terror, has proven one of my personal universal truths: The craziest guy in the room usually gets his way.
Between 150,000 and 300,000 expatriate Israelis live in the Los Angeles area, and some of them are pushing for the right to cast absentee ballots in Israeli elections.
More than 500 demonstrators, mostly Orthodox Jews, gathered in front of the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles last weekend to oppose Israel\’s planned, upcoming pullout of settlers from Gaza.
The next Congress will look a lot like the last one, which was marked by unprecedented partisan strife and legislative gridlock.
Stress and disappointment gave way to jubilation at the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) of Los Angeles\’ election night party as President George W. Bush piled up the electoral votes and turned the map of the United States Republican red.
Nov. 4 marks the ninth anniversary of the single-worst moment in Israel\’s history: the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. With hindsight — although many recognized it at the time — it is clear that the Rabin murder achieved the goal of its perpetrator.
Like two surly dinner guests who won\’t let an argument go, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry won\’t get off topic when they take their case to U.S. Jews: It\’s all Israel all the time.
Just days before the U.S. elections, the presidential candidates are sending the same broad messages about their approaches to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the greater Middle East, but they differ sharply on the details.
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