Posted on 12/10/2014 5:39:56 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Former Likud MK Moshe Kahlon will indeed be running for the Knesset – and on Wednesday evening, he introduced his new party to Israelis. The party's name will be “Kulanu,” meaning “all of us.”
The name is reminiscent of the campaign phrase used by Ehud Barak in his campaign for the Prime Minister's position in 1999, when he said that he would be the leader of “kulam” - everyone.
Kahlon did not announced the names of any of the candidates who would be running with him. However, he said, his slogan to the voters would be “Be like Kahlon” (“Tihyu Kahlonim”) - a phrase coined, ironically, by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who was encouraging ministers in his cabinet to follow the example of Kahlon who, when Communications Minister, engineered the plan to significantly reduce the cost of cellphone service in Israel.
According to polls, Kahlon's party would do well at the polls, garnering between 10 and 13 seats. Kahlon has not released a party platform, but it is expected that it will focus on economic issues. Nevertheless, Kahlon said over the weekend that he would “not hesitate” to give up land in Judea and Samaria if it was necessary to advance the peace process.
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everyone can have their own party
I want one, too.
Is this going to be Israel’s tea party, or another Marxist party?
Another flavor of the month centrist party. These come and go every election cycle.
Israelis jokingly refer to them as “mushroom parties.” Here today, gone tomorrow.
I want two parties.
Bennet’s got the TEA party. Soon as you start talking about the old land4piece formula, that’s it as far as I’m concerned.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Everyone gets their own party. This one would make a good name for a whale at Sea World
He’ll give them the entire Negev and cheaper cell phone service, no right of return, though.
The type that keeps eating its trainers?
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