No sooner had incumbent Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared himself victorious in last Friday’s election, his challenger, Mir Hossein Moussavi cried “foul” at the results of the balloting which gave Ahmadinejad 62.5 % of the total vote. Mousavi, a former Iranian president during the 1980’s and who ran under a campaign of economic and social [...]
46 million Iranians voted Friday in what was declared to be the first really contested election in that country since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that “lovely” man who continues to say that Israel is an “illegal” state and should be “wiped of the face of the map“, was opposed by [...]
Tomorrow, Wednesday evening, at 6 pm Jerusalem Time, President Shimon Peres will receive the official results of the general elections, which took place last week. These results will include all the votes, including the soldiers’ ballots.
Peres’ decision won’t be an easy one. Neither candidate — Binyamin Netanyahu nor Tzipi Livni — has so far managed [...]
Tomorrow Israel elects a new Prime Minister. But tonight… tonight Israel celebrates the New Year of Trees, or Tu B’Shvat (15 in the month of Shvat).
Because the Jewish calender is a lunisolar calendar, the 15 of each Jewish month is always a full moon night. Another Jewish holiday that is marked by the full [...]
A little while ago the US showed the world that it can reinvent itself just when we thought we knew everything about them. A black man was elected to president. I still remember the Eddy Murphy comedy show Delirious where he makes fun with the notion of a black president. A president that would have [...]
Parliamentary elections are only a few days away, and ongoing pre-election polls are trying to determine what the most important issues are in regards to which political party, or parties, in Israel’s usual governmental coalition formations afterwards will wind up forming the next government.
In the aftermath of the just completed 22 day military operations [...]
For some reason the powers to be decided that this ad was too much and banned it from showing. Maybe it was the sex, maybe it’s the amputated legs the man has in this video. You would think that a country with such a strong army/war background would be more understanding to the rights of [...]
Israel is undergoing Russiafication says Lily Galili in HaAretz (this phrase only appears in the Hebrew version of the article).
What Lily means to say is that veteran Israelis increasingly share the immigrants’ negative views of the police. In other words, Russian immigrants are more suspicious of the police, and are more likely to feel persecuted [...]
According to leading commentators, both Minister of Defense Ehud Barak and Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Livni are in favor of pulling the IDF out of Gaza. They understand that there’s nothing more to gain from staying in enemy territory, and that it only puts our soldiers’ lives at risk.
On the other hand, Prime Minister [...]
For the very first time in Israeli history(?), ordinary people get the chance to submit questions to the major candidates who compete for the Prime Minister seat.
YouTube — the video sharing hub, owned by Google — is holding an open contest, in which everyone is encouraged to submit a video footage of themselves raising a [...]
I’m confused. Last time I looked at the polls, the Likud was far ahead of Kadima.
But today I read an article that says Kadima has a slight margin over Bibi’s party. It doesn’t make sense. Either poll makers are distorting the picture, or the Israeli public is more confused than I am.
If nothing extraordinary occurs, 3 months from now Benyamin Netanyahu will be once again Prime Minister of Israel, while Barack Obama sits at the Oval Office in Washington, DC.
How will they communicate with each other? Netanyahu is a devoted Capitalist, who’s currently promising his constituency to be a strict hard-liners when it comes to security [...]
Have you heard about Google’s “In Quotes” service? It was launched two months ago, primarily aimed at helping the American voters find relevant information about the Presidential candidates.
However, the In Quotes database contain quotes by Israeli politicians as well, and it’s very interesting to take a look at what the two leading party leaders, Tzipi [...]
A new research done in the Netherlands reconfirms a known social fact: Crime is contagious.
“But what do you do when the entire political system is corrupted and cynical? How can you avoid being infected?”
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This is the sort of thoughts that go through my head, through many people’s heads. In February, we’ll arrive at the polling [...]
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Opposition Reconstruction
11-Feb-09These were strange elections. The “Right Block” (of political parties) and the “Center Block” have achieved a problematic tie, while the “Left Block” has been brutally crushed by its (lack of) voters.
Ehud Barak, a former Prime Minister, current Minister of Defense, and chairman of the Avoda (Israeli Labor Party), was the first party leader to [...]