tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post5539705060024495024..comments2024-03-27T16:27:03.093+02:00Comments on Shiloh Musings: Bibi's Cabinet on a Tight LeashBatyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09402874037427009327noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post-15405043796603793382012-10-20T21:27:05.691+02:002012-10-20T21:27:05.691+02:00Eliyahu, nice terminology.
goyish, in the Israeli ...Eliyahu, nice terminology.<br />goyish, in the Israeli system, if you're not the PM making the rules, you have more power in the opposition. Think of how the Left really controls the govt and how pre-1977 Labor wouldn't have dared to destroy Jewish communities and withdraw the way Begin did, because they were afraid of Begin's strong Right opposition.Batyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09402874037427009327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post-32408780347664076402012-10-20T21:15:04.603+02:002012-10-20T21:15:04.603+02:00Batya, while it is true that an opposition MK can ...Batya, while it is true that an opposition MK can say whatever he/she wants, there were periods that there were ministers criticizing the PM from within, too. The problem is not that members of the government are unable to speak out, it is that they are afraid to do so. The solution to this problem is not to merely vote for a party doomed to be an opposition ghetto party, but also to vote in the Likud primaries for independent voices who have no fear of speaking out and opposing the PM.goyisherebbehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09380171052449799815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post-59463941774073236372012-10-20T20:38:45.082+02:002012-10-20T20:38:45.082+02:00Ever since Bibi went berserk against Moshe Feiglin...Ever since Bibi went berserk against Moshe Feiglin two elections ago, the truth was obvious to those who could see, and it was even more obvious after he took on the Central Committee a couple of years ago; since Sharon defected from the Likud to form Kadima, Bibi has viewed the party as his personal playground. And since he rules the party which rules the coalition, <b>Bibi's velvet fist has been clamped around Israel's throat.</b><br /><br />This was painfully clear a couple of weeks ago, as Bibi first threatened to call early elections and then did so. In what kind of banana republic is the decision of if or when the people vote in the hands of one man?! And in what kind of non-representative democracy is going to the polls a <i>threat</i> to be used <i>against</i> politicians?!! The situation is so perversely removed from modern, Western "democracy," to say nothing of the Athenian original, that anyone with a high-schooler's intelligence and education in history should be weeping.<br /><br />Israeli politicians represent nothing and no one but themselves, and the few starry-eyed idiots like Tzipi (whom I've met in person and think well of, at the personal level,) and Feiglin are only deluding themselves until they'll be crushed by "the System" into conforming, or else be spit out. <b>The Knesset is a stinking heap of sewage, and Bibi is the "cock o' the dungheap."</b> And lucky for them that Tzipi and 9 others are in the building, or else they should be waiting for the fire and brimstone to give them their well-deserved reward, <i>ala</i> Sodom and Gomorrah.Eliyahu S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07094233217529086407noreply@blogger.com