cartoon: Ben Heine
The reactions from Israeli journalists and politicians to Azmi Bishara’s Knesset resignation provides a sort of Rorschach test for Israeli attitudes toward democracy. The first lesson you must learn about the attitudes of the majority of the 75-80% of Israelis who are Jews is that both the State and its democracy exists [...]
Tikun Olam has been in the news today in no less than three publications and I’m delighted. First, after hocking everyone I could think of including The Forward about the Bishara story for some time, they assigned their Israeli correspondent, Orly Halpern to write about it. She did an estimable job though she [...]
Read full post...This is one of the stranger posts I’ll have written here about Israeli politics. Usually I have a hard source from either Haaretz or Ynetnews or the New York Times upon which I can base my analysis and commentary. But tonight I have several piecemeal sources none of which tell a complete story.
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