Posted on 05/08/2012 6:43:21 AM PDT by Former Fetus
In a surprise turnabout, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to cancel the early elections he had called just 24 hours before and instead form a unity government with the opposition party Kadima, Israeli officials said Tuesday.
The decision shocked much of Israel's political establishment, which was gearing up to dissolve the parliament, or Knesset, and launch campaigns for a Sept. 4 vote.
By joining the government coalition, newly elected Kadima Chairman Shaul Mofaz avoids facing voters amid polls indicating that his centrist party would lose more than half its Knesset seats. Just a month ago, Mofaz declared he would not join the government and vowed to unseat Netanyahu.
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
The "ultra orthodox", besides not serving in the military, also tend to use Israel's welfare system to support themselves while spending their days engaged in Torah studies. NY Times, 60 percent of the haredim men do not work. Israel also spends a lot of money subsidizing their seminaries.
Since their Shas Party has long held the balance of power between the right and left, they were able to get lots of goodies.
Yes, Israel is growing more socially and politically conservative as the number of Jews there walk away from Leftism and more toward Torah.
Kadima is not centrist. They’re just a bunch of Leftists trying to lie to everyone that they are not Leftists. Jews have figured out that ploy and would vote a number of Kadima out, like the article says, if elections were held today.
The Left is desperate to stay in power at any cost.
I do believe that he,( Obama), is a Marxist and a Black Liberationists which is to say that he instinctively despises America and would reflexively side with her enemies... providing that does not damage world socialism or his own personal ambitions.
I believe he will lay the predicate for an October Surprise ....which will involve military action against Iran's nuclear establishment and along the Straits of Hormuz...... If Iran reacts by attempting to close the Straits of Hormuz, so much the better from Obama's point of view.
He will expect,.. and he will get,... not just a reconciliation of Jewish voters... but the support of evangelicals... who identify with Israel ....and plain old-fashioned American patriots who predictably will rally around the flag and rush to support their President.
He is laying the predicate for an October Surprise....... Can anyone imagine that he will strike, if he does strike, after and not before the election?.....
Our difficulty will be that he will be right to strike Iran and it will be difficult to demonstrate that Obama is not acting to save the nation as well as Israel........ Right now, every American who fills his car at the pump has reason to curse Obama but all that will be washed away in a flood of patriotic fervor when the missiles fly. .....Obama will be right to strike but his motives will be absolutely corrupt.
We are in a box.
It will be almost impossible to convince the public that they should vote against Obama's reelection by arguing that his motives were corrupt even as we concede that his policy was correct.
......beware the Surprises of October.
Israel often forms unity governments just before major conflicts, so this may be the prelude to the fugue with Iran, which a lot of estimates now say may be in June.
Netanyahu is very smart and a true leader who knows he is obligated to protect the people of Israel. This was a good strategic move.
....When the state was founded in 1948, David Ben-Gurion, granted full-time yeshiva students state financing and exemption from army service... ‘to refill the ranks of Torah scholarship destroyed in the Holocaust’. ......Then, there were 400 students.... Today, there are about 60,000.
...The ‘haredim’, ... make up 10 percent of Israel’s population of ‘7.5 million’, but are increasing rapidly.....more than 60 percent of ultra-Orthodox men in Israel do not work,..... about 56 percent of ultra-Orthodox live below the poverty line...... Most are dependent on welfare payments like income support, child allowances or married student stipends. .....In addition to the men,.... more than 50 percent of haredi women do not work..... The ‘haredim’ still marry young and favor large families with eight children or more.”.....
These excerpts certainly explain why Israel should address this problem...it sounds an awful lot like the US ‘Generational’ Welfare Recipients who cannot break the cycle....who are now flooding the “Disability” benefit handouts, since they made it more difficult to remain on Welfare.
Benjamin all the way! Benjamin, we have some hard work to do before you quit.
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