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Topic: israeli election results - part 2
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island empire
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posted 27 April 2006 12:07 PM
final coalition partnes:kadima
labour
shas
pensioners party
united torah judaism not quite the most progressive coalition government, but i'll definitely take it, considering that utj and shas are practically communists on the domestic side. that means that every one of the parties (aside from kadima, which doesn't really seem to have a domestic politics) will be strongly anti-neo-liberal. it would appear then that israel is back on track...
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josh
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posted 27 April 2006 12:47 PM
Depsite the CBC story (which mistakenly has Labor with 20, when they have 19, seats), it's not clear whether UTJ will be part of the coalition. quote:
On another front, coalition talks between Kadima and United Torah Judaism seems to have hit a snag in light of UTJ's insistence that child allowances be boosted. At this time it also appears that Avigdor Lieberman's Israel Our Home will remain out of the government after failing to reach agreement on outstanding issues, most notably Kadima's diplomatic plan.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3244578,00.html
And UTJ, and to a lesser extent Shas, is not interested so much in rejecting neo-liberal economics as in simply receiving more funding for its schools and institutions.
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island empire
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posted 27 April 2006 04:11 PM
looks like you're partly right about utj. looks like they may not make it into government. i guess you're pretty much right though about their aims to increase funding for their constituents - still, they're nationalists in a vein pretty much antithetical to bibi neo-liberal zionism. also, you're totally wrong about shas. shas is as much ethnic as religious, they're also a genuine pragmatic zionist party that's explicitly and actively anti-neo-liberal. really, they are practically communists (well, the religious kind). by the way, it looks like shas will get industry and trade.so yeah, the best news of the day (from haaretz): quote:
Meanwhile, Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday that the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party was apparently no longer a possible coalition partner, and told his Kadima party faction that he would renew talks with the left-wing Meretz if this did prove to be the case.
meretz is the best party out there, and beilin would be awesome to have in a ministry! [ 27 April 2006: Message edited by: island empire ]
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Wilf Day
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posted 02 May 2006 03:10 AM
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Originally posted by island empire:
apparently utj may yet join.
But Meretz is also still a possible coalition member:
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despite reports that with Israel Beiteinu out of the picture, Meretz would consider joining the coalition, Kadima negotiator Yoram Turbovich told Meretz's representative, MK Ran Cohen, that they were giving Israel Beiteinu a few more days and only after that would they enter talks with Meretz. Cohen said that "Olmert is making a huge mistake continuing to pursue Lieberman," but he admitted that Meretz still saw itself as a possible partner in the coalition. Israel Beiteinu announced yesterday that it wasn't planning to join the government and that "Olmert decided in favor of the Left and against the Aliya from the former Soviet Union." . . the publishing of Kadima's list of ministers made it evident that there were no ministries left for Israel Beiteinu.
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