February 9, 2009

I've BeenThinking:

About Tuesday's elections in Israel

This election is still up in the air.
Anyone who predicts results is projecting his/her own wishes rather than predicting.

It is all up in the air is because 22% of Israeli voters are still undecided.
Those 22% are centrists.
That means they are in perpetual motion, swaying between the slight right of center and the slight left of center.

The extreme right has gained popularity and power and will become the 3rd largest party in the Knesset.
The founding parties of the nation, Labor and the Religious Zionists, have continued to dwindle to the point where they now have almost no influence on Israeli politics.

When it comes to military and political decision making there will be no discernible difference between Likud and Kadima.
They fight bitterly, but it is more style than substance that differentiates between the parties - at heart they are the same.

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