The contenders for the February 10 parliamentary election are an array of
fascist (Lieberman),
Terrorist (Netanyaho),
Assassin (Barak) and a former
MOSSAD agent killer (Livni).
There is no front runner who is a plain civilised or cultured Israeli. Although Israeli security is a major issue in the election but the declared policies of those running will never help Israel to attain peace that have eluded her during the last 60 years. Fascist Lieberman wants Arabs to be loyal to Israel, forgetting that most Jews living abroad are not loyal to the countries they live in but to Israel. Should Obama for, example, fire and send home his Jewish chief of staff, for being loyal to Israel as he is a reserve army officer in Israeli notorious IDF (SS)?
The Jews must realise that the West is right now in a financial crisis and can’t possibly continue to finance and arm Israel to carry out NAZI-Style atrocities against Arabs. To Arabs it makes no difference whether Jewish Himmler or Jewish Hitler is elected. Israeli remains as a Nazi rogue state in breach of 39 UN Security Council Resolutions.
The world is fed up with a re-incarnated Nazi practices replacing the Swastika with David Star. Many Jews have already labelled Lieberman as a fascist. A very strong Wehrmacht didn't help Hitler to survive.
I continue to label Israel as a Nazi state because it carries out Nazi-style atrocities. I have already made a detailed list of such practices. It is not whether one can criticize or change the Nazi hierarchy but how to stop their aggression and violations.
The Jewish inmates of Nazi concentration camps shouldn't complain since Himmler had sent musical bands to welcome them upon arrival at Auschwitz.
One of the pillars of democracy is the presence of a strong parliamentary opposition which insists on the presence of effective checks and balances and to ensure that the government doesn’t turn into an autocracy bordering dictatorship. In the recent past, the Israeli politics had what was called left, centre and right. But the political platforms of most political parties which participated in the election of 10.02.09 didn’t differ much and can be described as right.
of centre (Kadima), extreme right wing (Likud) and fascists (Israeli Beitneu). No matter who is going to form the next government, he/she will say adios to the Middle East peace process that started in Oslo, to the two-state solution as promoted by the Americans or to the land for peace of the Arab peace proposal.
It will also be a kick in the teeth for the so-called Arab moderates the prostrated and useless Abbas, Mubarak and Kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The Israeli election will help to unify Arabs and to polarise their positions with Hamas playing a major role in future Palestinain unity government. It is the first time that Arabs don’t care who forms the next government in Israel. It is like asking a Jew in 1944 whether he prefers Hitler or Himmler. And like Hitler whom the Germans voted for in 1932, Netanyahu and Co. will lead his country to destruction.
Author: Adnan
Date: 10-02-09 12:55
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Israel faces gridlock, peace prospects dim
11 Feb 2009 19:02:17 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds party talks under way)
By Douglas Hamilton
JERUSALEM, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Israel headed for political gridlock on Wednesday with both sides declaring victory in an election that left the prospect of Israel and the Palestinians making peace as distant as ever.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's centrist Kadima party won the most votes but had little chance of building enough support for a resilient coalition government. Right-wing opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu can get the backing in parliament, but analysts said the likely alliance would prove dysfunctional.
"I won," read the headline of the country's biggest newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, over photographs of both leaders. But to some commentators, the rival claims showed that Israel, deeply beset with divisions over constitutional issues and years of failed diplomacy with Arabs, had lost.
"One thing is clear to all Israeli voters," said the paper's Eitan Haber. "The political system is shattered."
Washington signalled equanimity. The new administration of U.S. President Barack Obama wants to revive peace talks to give the Palestinians a state alongside Israel, provided they can repair a schism triggered by Islamist Hamas's hold on Gaza.
"We certainly hope that a new (Israeli) government will continue to pursue a path to peace. I see no reason to think a new government would do something otherwise," State Department spokesman Robert Wood said.
Israeli President Shimon Peres must now decide whether to call on Livni or Netanyahu, who then has 42 days to form a government. An official election tally is due out by Feb. 18, after which Peres would have a week to make his nomination.
As the parties began negotiating possible pacts, Israeli media said it seemed Peres would have no choice but to tap Netanyahu if the majority rightists all back him.
But it would be the first time in Israel's 60-year history that the winner of an election would be passed over.
The results, not yet official, gave Netanyahu 27 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, while Livni's Kadima won 28.
She said she would be prime minister and invited Netanyahu to join a "unity government". But Netanyahu said he would lead the "nationalist camp" in parliament, and control 64 seats.
"With God's help I will lead the next government," Netanyahu, 59, told supporters of his Likud party.
"Tzipi Livni has only the slightest chance, or none at all, of forming a government under her leadership," said Abraham Diskin, a political scientist at Jerusalem's Hebrew University.
HARD RIGHT IN PIVOTAL POSITION
Avigdor Lieberman's far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party, which surged to third place in the ballot with its demand to test the loyalties of Israeli Arabs, emerged as a potential kingmaker.
He met Livni and Netanyahu on Wednesday, appearing to favour the latter though he deferred any decision. Another linchpin party, the conservative Shas, held it own talks with the Likud.
"We want a nationalist government. We want a rightist government," Lieberman said. A deal was needed as fast as possible because the state "has been paralysed for half a year".
"People may not be aware, but we are still without a budget ... in conditions of global financial crisis," Lieberman said.
Netanyahu had been cruising ahead in opinion polls until Olmert's centre-left coalition, including Livni, launched a military offensive against Hamas and other factions in the Gaza Strip, to stop them firing rockets at towns in southern Israel.
The 22-day January war cost 1,300 Palestinian lives versus 13 Israelis killed, but had massive public support. After a truce on Jan 18, the election campaign resumed as Israel pursued Egyptian-brokered talks with Hamas on a durable Gaza truce.
The ceasefire talks are still going on, and uncertainty in Israel will not stop them, both sides said on Wednesday.
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Israel's next government must also restart serious talks on a comprehensive peace deal, and could not let them stagnate.
"I think if we continue in a crisis management mode, if we don't enter into a conflict resolution mode it will be going back and back again," Solana told Reuters.
Livni, 50, led the main peace talks last year with the Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas, and would try to revive them. Netanyahu is cooler on the key trade-offs for an accord -- ceding occupied land and curbing Jewish settlement.
Lieberman and religious parties in a coalition would be likely to set virtually impossible conditions for a peace deal.
The Palestinian Authority, which governs the occupied West Bank, said that whoever ends up in charge Israel is obliged to continue talks and to meet international obligations.
"The ascent of the Israeli right does not worry us," Abbas told Italy's La Repubblica newspaper. "In whatever form, the government, once in power, will ultimately end up with responsibility, pragmatism prevailing."
But many Palestinians were gloomy. "Israelis voted for the right and against peace," said office worker Ali Zaidan. "We will not see progress in the peace process in the coming years." (Additional reporting by Sue Pleming in Washington; Editing by Peter Millership) (For blogs and links on Israeli politics and other Israeli and Palestinian news, go to http://blogs.reuters.com/axismundi)
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