Livni, Netanyahu Both Claim Victory -Griff Witte
Israeli voters delivered a split decision in national elections Tuesday, sparking competing claims by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu over who will be the next prime minister.
(Washington Post)
Israel's Electoral System: Proportional Representation -David Blair
Israel uses a pure form of proportional representation, ensuring that any party which gets, for example, 10% of the vote will win exactly 10% of the seats in the Knesset. So no party can truly "win" an election. The best they can hope for is to capture enough seats to be invited by Israel's president to form a coalition.
(Telegraph-UK)
Kadima, Likud Both Claim Victory
Netanyahu has a better chance of forging a coalition because of gains by parties [on the right] that are his natural allies.
By law, President Shimon Peres must consult with all the parties as to who they prefer as prime minister, and whoever is recommended by more Knesset members is given the nod to try and form a government.
The final election results may not be known until Thursday when election officials finish counting the soldiers' votes.
(Ha'aretz)
Palestinians Have Reduced Israeli's Hope for Peace -Herb Keinon
On innumerable occasions over the last 15 years, since the signing of the Oslo accords, Israel has been warned by both the well-meaning and the patronizing, that it had better watch its steps, lest it radicalize the Palestinians. What we didn't hear much of during this period were entreaties to the Palestinians not to take actions that would radicalize Israeli society, that would rob it of hope, that would push it to despair of ever reaching a peace agreement in the region.
Palestinian suicide bombing attacks, rockets, and kidnapping of soldiers over the last 15 years have transformed Israeli society. The country has gone from believing in the 1990s that it had reached safe shores to believing in 2009 that no matter what it does it will not be accepted in the region.
Everyone has been so concerned over the years about what reaction Israel's actions would generate among the Palestinians, that they overlooked the degree to which Arab actions have caused a reaction among Israeli[s].
(Jerusalem Post)
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Israeli voters delivered a split decision in national elections Tuesday, sparking competing claims by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu over who will be the next prime minister.
(Washington Post)
Israel's Electoral System: Proportional Representation -David Blair
Israel uses a pure form of proportional representation, ensuring that any party which gets, for example, 10% of the vote will win exactly 10% of the seats in the Knesset. So no party can truly "win" an election. The best they can hope for is to capture enough seats to be invited by Israel's president to form a coalition.
(Telegraph-UK)
Kadima, Likud Both Claim Victory
Netanyahu has a better chance of forging a coalition because of gains by parties [on the right] that are his natural allies.
By law, President Shimon Peres must consult with all the parties as to who they prefer as prime minister, and whoever is recommended by more Knesset members is given the nod to try and form a government.
The final election results may not be known until Thursday when election officials finish counting the soldiers' votes.
(Ha'aretz)
Palestinians Have Reduced Israeli's Hope for Peace -Herb Keinon
On innumerable occasions over the last 15 years, since the signing of the Oslo accords, Israel has been warned by both the well-meaning and the patronizing, that it had better watch its steps, lest it radicalize the Palestinians. What we didn't hear much of during this period were entreaties to the Palestinians not to take actions that would radicalize Israeli society, that would rob it of hope, that would push it to despair of ever reaching a peace agreement in the region.
Palestinian suicide bombing attacks, rockets, and kidnapping of soldiers over the last 15 years have transformed Israeli society. The country has gone from believing in the 1990s that it had reached safe shores to believing in 2009 that no matter what it does it will not be accepted in the region.
Everyone has been so concerned over the years about what reaction Israel's actions would generate among the Palestinians, that they overlooked the degree to which Arab actions have caused a reaction among Israeli[s].
(Jerusalem Post)
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