This makes no sense.
In a democracy, in the final analysis, you must put responsibility with the people voting and supporting its institutions.
Otherwise, all the talk of the merits of democracy is rubbish.
The people pretty much get the goverment they deserve in any democratic state.
What people fail to realize is that democracies are not automatically decent forms of government. A majority with bad intentions can indefinitely impose its will.
Only a bill or charter of rights offers some protection against such majority abuse, but Israel does not have one, nor is it likely that it ever will with religious definitions governing many aspects of its society.
It truly does not matter much who is elected in Israel.
The choice of a woman who worked with Olmert is hardly promising. He is surely a war criminal by any reasonable, meaningful definition.
Olmert launched a savage bout of killing just so his party could have election bona fides.
As to Lieberman, he is quite rightly characterized as a fascist. Were this any place but Israel, the world's press would be saying just that.
Netanyahu has a long record of inflammatory statements and corrosively negative attitudes. He is a dark, unpleasant figure, altogether.
More than once, he has openly expressed contempt for Arabs.
It is generally put that Israel has moved to the right, but I rather think it is more accurate to say that Israel has moved into darkness.
I don't know how it could be more clear that Israelis do not want a just peace.
Oh, yes, if asked about peace in general in polls, they say yes, but peace in general is a meaningless abstraction. Genuine peace has to be qualified by all the small print.
I wonder how many readers are aware that while Olmert was killing maybe 400 children in Gaza, there was heavy activity in the West Bank seizing more of other people's land?
Recent revelations through Google maps demonstrate the intensity of Israel's continuing efforts to seize land through informal settlements.
Other revelations through government papers demonstrate clearly the government's quiet collusion in such illegal and unethical efforts.
We will have peace if Israel is prepared to return to its 1967 borders, but there is not the least indication that that is likely or even possible.
But peace isn’t just borders, it is treating your neighbors with respect and decency, but we see no sign of this from Israel, and it is Israel that holds all the cards.
SOME OF ISRAEL'S HANDIWORK IN GAZA
