harmonicminor.com » Likud http://harmonicminor.com kristofer j. petersen-overton Tue, 25 May 2010 12:49:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Uncle Tom? http://harmonicminor.com/2009/04/01/uncle-tom/ http://harmonicminor.com/2009/04/01/uncle-tom/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:29:14 +0000 Kris Petersen http://harmonicminor.com/2009/04/01/uncle-tom/ Ayoob Kara won’t present these dilemmas to the Jewish public. Even if he is appointed to a post in the Netanyahu government, he must remain right-wing and “loyal,” to the liking of Avigdor Lieberman. Kara, a hawk and reserves officer who declares his complete loyalty to the state and Likud, does not view himself as a Palestinian like most Arab citizens in Israel. Yet despite these differences, he promises that he will faithfully represent the entire Arab public. (more…)

]]> http://harmonicminor.com/2009/04/01/uncle-tom/feed/ 0 Center-Right? http://harmonicminor.com/2009/03/26/center-right/ http://harmonicminor.com/2009/03/26/center-right/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:06:21 +0000 Kris Petersen http://harmonicminor.com/2009/03/26/center-right/ To form the kind of center-right government Mr. Netanyahu says he would like to administer, he needs the Kadima party as a moderating force. (more…)

Netanyahu’s version of “center-right” (and the Christian Science Monitor‘s apparently) is not bombing Palestinians into submission, but rather increasing land expropriation and settlement expansion. Oh, and not requiring Israeli Arab citizens to swear loyalty oaths to the state. How moderate of Netanyahu.

]]> http://harmonicminor.com/2009/03/26/center-right/feed/ 0 This is the Israeli Left http://harmonicminor.com/2009/01/27/this-is-the-israeli-left-2/ http://harmonicminor.com/2009/01/27/this-is-the-israeli-left-2/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:53:29 +0000 Kris Petersen http://harmonicminor.com/2009/01/27/this-is-the-israeli-left-2/ We must not be led astray in this election campaign and consider both Livni and Barak as moderates, in contrast to the “extremist” Netanyahu. This is a deception. Kadima and Labor, the center and left-wing parties, have led Israel to two awful wars within two years. Netanyahu has yet to go to war once. True, he speaks more radically than the other two, but so far it has only been words, while the “moderates” have taken radical, aggressive action. (more…)

]]> http://harmonicminor.com/2009/01/27/this-is-the-israeli-left-2/feed/ 0 Israeli Politics http://harmonicminor.com/2009/01/19/israeli-politics/ http://harmonicminor.com/2009/01/19/israeli-politics/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:54:17 +0000 Kris Petersen http://harmonicminor.com/2009/01/19/israeli-politics/ The left-wing pretends to accept the concept of a land-for-peace settlement but, in practice, perpetually stalls it by launching regional atrocities. The right-wing is more honest. It openly rejects the notion of relinquishing any land. (more…)

]]> http://harmonicminor.com/2009/01/19/israeli-politics/feed/ 0 If Obama is Serious… http://harmonicminor.com/2008/12/19/if-obama-is-serious/ http://harmonicminor.com/2008/12/19/if-obama-is-serious/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:06:42 +0000 Kris Petersen http://harmonicminor.com/2008/12/19/if-obama-is-serious/ Some time before Israelis vote in February, Mr Obama should spell out precisely the sort of peace America envisages: two states sharing Jerusalem, with a border very close to the pre-1967 armistice line, not one that lets Israel keep its settlement blocks deep in the West Bank. Just as Hamas needs to hear that Israel is not going to disappear, so Israel—especially if it elects a Likud government—needs to hear that America will not let it hold those settlements for ever. (more…)

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