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Seems like everytime I turn around, Israel is conducting yet another national election. Twenty years ago, it was Italy with the unending government changes. I’m rather surprised Netanyahu still even wants to be president. His party does not seem very loyal to him, even after all he’s done for their country. Winston Churchill went through a similar period after helping Britain through wartime.


11 posted on 03/24/2021 8:29:04 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

Yeah, this is the problem with Parliamentary systems. The people break off into factions. For a long time when Israel was developing the Labor party ruled. As they got more technological and different waves of immigrants came and changing birthrates suddenly smaller parties grew as they pitted their own ‘ethnic’ and religious identities against each other. The Russian influx at the end of the cold war saw a rise in Russian party affiliated voters. The Sephardic Jews always felt they got the short shrift from the European Jews so they started their own party. The religious sects each have their own party, some only want small things like exemption from military or to control the marriage license office. Then there were splinter parties where “moderates” from 2 main parties joined together to form a new party. So it is changing again, now to where its very difficult to assemble a coalition.


20 posted on 03/24/2021 9:04:36 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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