The Palestinians should let Netanyahu do the PR tango for them for free. All they have to do is let him dance the right-wing dance with Lieberman.
Is Netanyahu’s victory in Israel a free PR for the Palestinians?
The Palestinians should let Netanyahu do the PR tango for them for free. All they have to do is let him dance the right-wing dance with Lieberman.
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December 26th, 2009 at 1:37 am
Absolutely. I never thought I’d see it, but I think this actually is the beginning of the end of the Zionist State.
December 28th, 2009 at 10:25 am
He hasn’t won yet. He’s a separate party from Lieberman. Do you understand the Israeli government is the confusing mush mash of inclusiveness that throws ALL sides together?
When I did research, I’d hear Lieberman is ******…so I started searching. No where did I find ****** comments from him. I expected to see things the KKK would come up with or some of the Arab leaders about Jews (Hamas’s statements that Jews are dogs & pigs & defile the ME.) I couldn’t.
ALL I found were political solution ideas to a difficult problem that talked about redrawing the lines so Israeli Arabs that are continuations of the PA Arab communities would be politically added to the Palestinian Authority. Polls show those same Arabs overwhelmingly don’t want to leave Israeli governing. This isn’t talking about ethnic cleansng (killing off people.) It isn’t moving ALL Arabs out of Israel by any stretch of the imagination. It’s talking about taking naturally developed communtities that were split up by the UN arrangement & putting them back together again. It’s talking about taking people some of whom say they want Israel to disappear & moving them to a country they want to have appear.
While I haven’t studied it & am not sure that’s a good solution. It’s not hateful. I assume I’ve missed something in his speeches. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if in ISRAELI SPEAK which is much more blunt & vibrant than much of the world, this is it. …this is what they are referring to, & there is no **** speech to be had. Just one more creative political idea on how to form peace with people who don’t want peace.
He’s not who I’d vote for. However, it’s not PR for the Palestinians at all. Actually it’s bad PR for them that they keep driving Israel to move from it’s naturally preferred left leaning governments back to the right, based on Arab threats & policies.
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(PR is Public Relations)
December 30th, 2009 at 3:09 am
What is a PR?
January 2nd, 2010 at 2:31 am
If he wins, and he hasn’t yet, he is not a terrorist entity like Hamas, which was voted in legally by Gazans
January 2nd, 2010 at 1:37 pm
All decent people are shocked at the influence Obama is trying to exert over the formation of the new government in Israel. Obama is not keeping it a secret that his pro-Arab government does not like Netanyahu for being too pro-Israel. Obama is therefore opposed to an Israeli government led by Netanyahu.
US officials are publicly taking a wait-and-see approach to the formation of a new Israeli government, but privately many have expressed concern that Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu might preside over a right-wing coalition.
“There would be great unease” at the prospect of such a government, said one Capitol Hill source.
He predicted that a governing coalition of parties from the Right could embolden the left flank of the Democratic party and turn up pressure, particularly in the US Congress, to pass measures that made clear demands on Israel.
He distinguished, however, between a Netanyahu-led right-wing coalition and Netanyahu-led national unity government.
Despite the Likud’s second-place finish to the centrist Kadima party, parties on the Right won more of the vote, which means Netanyahu might have an easier time forming a hawkish coalition but could try to work out a formula for a unity government, as could Kadima head Tzipi Livni.
The Capitol Hill source, who didn’t want to be identified speaking about another country’s internal politics, noted that Netanyahu had made a strong effort to reach out to the Obama administration and made the case to the US and the Israeli public that he could work with the White House.
He said that attitude could help assuage US concerns when presented in a national-unity package, whose positions - whether under Netanyahu or Livni - would be more in line with the US’s own policies of engagement on Arab-Israeli reconciliation.
“The hope is that there is a government that is really committed to peace with the Palestinians,” The Washington Post quoted one senior administration official saying.
Even if Netanyahu prevails, the official added, “he’s grown over the years. Getting back to the talks with the Palestinians is really the only solution.”
Ron Dermer, a senior adviser to Netanyahu, said Wednesday that the Likud leader strongly preferred to put together a national-unity government that looked toward the center of the country’s political spectrum rather than a right-wing coalition.
Many political analysts say there’s no doubt the Obama administration would prefer to see a national-unity government headed by Livni.
“The impression in Israel is that the Obama administration has already made its preference known and that its preference is for Kadima - and that impression isn’t going anywhere,” said Georgetown University professor and Israel expert Michael Oren.
“They’d rather work with a centrist government than a right-wing government.”
He added that the preference of the Obama camp, with its interest in intensive diplomacy, was “legitimate,” noting that many Israelis preferred Republican presidential candidate John McCain because they observed a greater alignment of views.
When it comes to Livni, the administration falsely sees someone who has spent the last year working with the Palestinians as part of a negotiating process and made the two-state solution an important part of her campaign, while Netanyahu has been much more circumspect on the extent of his support for that formulation, focusing his campaign on the need for security.
And while Netanyahu did sign agreements that gave control of West Bank areas to the Palestinians as prime minister in the late ’90s, he had a troubled relationship with many of the American officials who served under then president Bill Clinton, several of whom are returning to office under Obama.
Dennis Ross, Clinton’s Middle East envoy and likely to be a top regional representative, described Netanyahu as “overcome by hubris” after his first election to the premiership and recalled him being “nearly insufferable, lecturing and telling us how to deal with the Arabs” in his book on the Oslo peace process.
Still, publicly US officials are welcoming the Israeli democratic process and indicating their readiness to work with whoever becomes prime minister.
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January 2nd, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Public Relations promo for the Palestinians?
Yeah, I’ve never thought of that!
If that guy takes office and he is Right Wing idealist in a time that America is going Left (OK, more liberal. “Left” might be too much, but you get my point) is like trying to make meringue cookies using egg-white and acid.
These Palestinian dooodes proved to be the toughest cookie the Jews must tango with.
OMG!! Am I stupid, or what? Give them to me!
Jewish people hit me with your far right anti-pro-life, anti-pro-peace and anti-pro-Palestinian thumbs down! NOW!!!
January 4th, 2010 at 10:10 am
It was the new loony Liberal parties that pushed Israelis to the far Right. Netanyahu and Lieberman are the RESULTS of the loony Left!
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January 6th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Netanyahu didn’t win moron.