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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Likud, Israel's likely next ruling party, held their "primaries" and primarily selected hawks and hardliners to stand in the Feb 10 elections.

Israelis continue to elect harder line hawks, but somehow it's always our responsibility to bring peace to the Middle East. Go figure.

By -epm, at 9:58 AM
'...48,500 people voted...' amazing that so few have so much influence on the world.

By Anonymous, at 10:45 AM
Frankly, I'm not enough of a wonk to really tell what this means, but it sounds big.

Especially since you're talking about some of the Settler's rights people in there.

.....

Anon, I agree.

By mikevotes, at 10:56 AM
AIPAC just referred to the Hebron loonies as 'squatters'...

http://jta.org/news/article/2008/12/07/1001387/jewish-groups-back-israel-on-hebron

Maybe there's hope.

By Anonymous, at 11:55 AM
I hadn't thought about it, but with the US Democratic Jewish support for AIPAC, there may be some sympathy/assistance for Obama.

By mikevotes, at 12:57 PM
I'm told Jews traditionally vote Democrat. I don't know how much influence the average Jew has over Zionists.

By Anonymous, at 1:54 PM
Frankly, I don't know enough about the financing, but I would guess many Jewish groups, likely including AIPAC gather significant sums of money from Dem voters.

By mikevotes, at 10:23 PM
It's difficult to discuss because it seems to be a taboo subject. I get my info from...

http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/

By Anonymous, at 8:03 AM