 ratcatcher2 says: This whole block, which has just been defined as "the left", is represented now by 14 parliamentary seats out of the 120 seats in the Israeli Knesset. To them one may hesitantly add four out of the 13 representatives of the Labour party in the newly elected Knesset, who are close in their political stance to Meretz. Hence 18 out of 120 is what's left of the Israeli left, and even that only if one is willing to engage in some intellectual gymnastics and expand the notion of "left" way beyond its traditional boundaries. As for the Labour party, labelling it a traitor for joining a rightwing government involves a certain amount of wishful thinking regarding its true nature to start with. The answer to the question "when has the Labour party transformed?" is "never", when it comes to its patterns of dealing with Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and "in the mid 1980s, just like most Labour parties in the west" when addressing its stance on social and economic issues. On society and economy, The Knesset: many parties, one mind Intransigence, expansionism, racism and warmongering now seem to be the consensus across Israeli politics The Israeli Labour party has long ago abandoned any commitment to social issues; it has joined up with the ruthless new economy and the big money behind it. Few MKs who still bother paying lip service to social equality, hooking up with Netanyahu, who branded himself as the enemy of the workers and the poor in his last tenure as finance minister. Internationally, the Labour party is viewed as a kosher stamp for any Israeli government, pr... Outstanding clip. Neither Israel nor the USA has faced up to the fact that the dream of Zionists is utterly contradictory to the founding dream of the USA: a completely religious government that will grant no political rights to non-Jews. A one-state solution is anathema because Arabs would have to be represented in government, and most Zionists want government to be strictly the domain of the state religion. The USA should be actively opposing curbs on religious freedom, not sponsoring client states that have religious discrimination as the sine qua non of their nation. |
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