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Sharon Leagcy: Kadima's Future
By Micah Halpern

Saturday January 7, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

The Israeli elections are scheduled for March 28.
The elections were called because the Knesset and the government no longer reflected the direction Prime Minister Sharon was plotting. The Knesset could not stop him but neither could Sharon effectively move ahead.

The reality is that the masses in the country are exactly on Sharon's wavelength - smack dab in the middle.
The average Israeli is not an extremist and Sharon's party, Kadima, reflects just that thinking.
The alternatives to Kadima reflect the extreme sides of the political spectrum with Labor on the left and Likud on the right.
Sharon took from both ends and formed a middle, not a mushy middle, a real solid middle with a practical set of goals and aspirations.

We do not hear about the middle very often, but that is because it is not colorful. We cover the extremes, we cover the extremists, they are more entertaining. But Sharon gave voice to the middle. Now that voice will become the loudest, boldest, clearest voice in politics exactly because the man who gave it life is out of political power.
That will be the political legacy of Ariel "Arik" Sharon.

4 June 2017 12:14 PM in Thoughts


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