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Sunday, September 2, 2007

Government Anarchy

During the last Israeli election campaign only a year and a half ago Tzachi Hanegbi spinned a spin that the "supermarket" of variety of opinions among the Kadima politicians meant that whatever you wanted, you could find it in the newly minted Kadima. Their only unifying aim was to get elected!

Besides the fact that they're united in their desire to keep their seats, they and their coalition allies don't seem to agree on the big issue of the day:

"...an argument broke out between Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman over who has the authority to determine when outposts should be evacuated."
"According to Livni, the authority to determine evacuation dates was the prime minister's and the defense minister's alone. Lieberman disagreed,"
"The committee will not delay the evacuation of the 26 illegal outposts that were established since 2001, when former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was in office," Ramon said.

"Both men [Danny Dayan and MK Otniel Schneller (Kadima)] said they were concerned about reports from the Olmert and Abbas meetings about large-scale withdrawals. The Council began lobbying Knesset members on the issue last week.
"We are demanding information on what he (Olmert is offering) on refugees, borders and the Temple Mount," said Dayan.
He [Schneller] said that should he discover that the Olmert was leaning toward a withdrawal to the pre-1967 border, he would work with the opposition to topple the government. (
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