Comments on: Here We Go Again http://semitism.net/2005/08/26/OLD217/ Pro-Jewish, Pro-Arab, Pro-Peace Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:22:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Anonymous http://semitism.net/2005/08/26/OLD217/#comment-781 Anonymous Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://semitism.net/2005/08/26/OLD217/#comment-781 A Party without a Leader<br /><p>Hi, Brad!  Are Peres and Barak really non-viable candidates?  Labor moved quickly enough to call elections...</p><p> Also I'm curious if you think Sharon would jump ship if he can't win back Likud.  The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/617751.html">editorial</a> in Haaretz yesterday was:</p> <blockquote> <p> <span class="t13">A party without a leader seeks a leader without a party. This is the current political reality, and there is only one correct answer: Labor, a party without a leader, will merge with Sharon, a leader without a party. This is the best proposal in the depressing political reality.</span></p> </blockquote> <p> </p><p>Andrew Schamess</p> A Party without a Leader

Hi, Brad!  Are Peres and Barak really non-viable candidates?  Labor moved quickly enough to call elections…

 Also I’m curious if you think Sharon would jump ship if he can’t win back Likud.  The editorial in Haaretz yesterday was:

 A party without a leader seeks a leader without a party. This is the current political reality, and there is only one correct answer: Labor, a party without a leader, will merge with Sharon, a leader without a party. This is the best proposal in the depressing political reality.

 

Andrew Schamess

]]> By: Brad Brooks-Rubin http://semitism.net/2005/08/26/OLD217/#comment-782 Brad Brooks-Rubin Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://semitism.net/2005/08/26/OLD217/#comment-782 Depressing<br />Andrew, Peres and Barak may be the most "viable" candidates Labor can muster, but, I think it's safe to say neither would have a chance of winning an election. Barak is not Bibi -- he has not recreated and regenerated himself in any way that makes him palpable to the electorate (right, center or left), and Peres may be a maneuverer, but he has proved over the course of 3 decades that he cannot win an election. The articles in the Post and Haaretz last week said Sharon would try to run anyway, if Bibi wins the Likus primary. Sharon joining Labor might just be too much, but anything is possible in Israeli politics, I guess. Disengagement means he has no home in any of the smaller religious parties, so if not Shinui, then Labor may indeed be it. Who knows, maybe Sharon will try to revive the brief experiment Israel tried of having the election for Prime Minister separate from the Knesset elections, so he can just run as an independent. All in all, Haaretz got it right: depressing. Depressing
Andrew, Peres and Barak may be the most “viable” candidates Labor can muster, but, I think it’s safe to say neither would have a chance of winning an election. Barak is not Bibi — he has not recreated and regenerated himself in any way that makes him palpable to the electorate (right, center or left), and Peres may be a maneuverer, but he has proved over the course of 3 decades that he cannot win an election.

The articles in the Post and Haaretz last week said Sharon would try to run anyway, if Bibi wins the Likus primary. Sharon joining Labor might just be too much, but anything is possible in Israeli politics, I guess. Disengagement means he has no home in any of the smaller religious parties, so if not Shinui, then Labor may indeed be it.

Who knows, maybe Sharon will try to revive the brief experiment Israel tried of having the election for Prime Minister separate from the Knesset elections, so he can just run as an independent.

All in all, Haaretz got it right: depressing.

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