I'm pretty tired, so I'll leave this to you. Vote by commenting.
Will Bibi extend the building freeze in Judea and Samaria, parts of Jerusalem, too?
Will Bibi extend the building freeze just in Judea and Samaria?Will Bibi encourage building, giving orders to regional authorities to approve building permits ASAP?
Will Bibi claim to thaw the building freeze but send orders to regional authorities to slowly approve building?
Please give your reasons, too. Thanks
12 comments:
He will try to comprimise, and end up pleasing nobody.
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Yes indeed, Bibi will try to please everybody. He will declare the freeze over, to please the right-wing. That also allows him to say that his honor has been preserved because he didn't break his promise. Then he will tell Obama, Clinton and the Israeli left-wing that what he meant was that the 10 month freeze is over, and a new stage of building restrictions has begun. (That should keep 'em quiet...) But again, this isn't a freeze. That will enrage the right-wing, even though it's not a freeze. To further complicate matters, in order to placate the enraged right-wing, a few chunks of building in large almost consensus communities like Ariel and Ma'aleh Adumim will be publicly authorized. Right-wingers will point out that these chunks were authorized two years ago by everyone except for the Defense Minister, and no-one will listen.
My reasons for this scenario? Familiarity with Bibi's track record and the situation in YeShA for the past 19 years, which has been my home for all but 15 months of that time.
If I'm surprised, I'm sure it won't be pleasantly.
Its amazing that Bibi will surrender to that Nazi Obama with his intermarried Shtadlanim during the three weeks
Basically, I guess you all agree. Bibi spent his time between reigns soaking up knowledge on how to be the wiliest politician since... ? Who can fill in that blank?
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Are we talking Israeli politician? I'll try Ben Gurion. He convinced the seculars that "Tzur Yisrael" didn't mean G-d and the religious that it did. And then there was the "shirt factory" in Dimona. Why all the security? Army uniform shirts. Seltzer bottle "bombs". Don't forget the incident where he took off his jacket at a British diplomatic meeting. I'll for particulars.
Hadassa, yes, Israeli politicians. And another of Ben Gurion's cons was to convince everyone that religious Jews were forbidden by Jewish Law to serve in the army which helped the secular Israelis to control it for over fifty years. Only in the past decade have things begun to change a bit.
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Batya, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't many - not all! - religious, especially hareidi, Jews receive the Tal Law with open arms? Ben Gurion had many allies in keeping the IDF firmly in secular hands. They're starting to lose their grip now and are they ever mad!
Call him a centrist or passive aggressive but I think he will sit on the fence--I don't think he knows how to say no.
BG played everybody against everybody, right against left, religious against secular, but also Mizrachi against Aguda. The late Moshe Unna, former Knesset member from the Kibbutz Hadati movement, wrote a whole book discussing the intrigues of BG in playing divide and conquer to keep the various sub-sectors of the religious population from uniting. The leaders of the major parties are still following that playbook.
Thanks, goyish, good point
goyisherebbe said...
The leaders of the major parties are still following that playbook.
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Yep, and the leaders of even today's minor parties are still falling for it.
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Yep. And a certain leader of a small faction of a large party has done wonders for uniting the right-wing, or even bolstering its numbers.
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