I know it’s been forever since I’ve posted here. There have been some big upheavals in my personal life: I’m leaving the medical group where I’ve worked for four years, and very likely starting a practice of my own. This is kind of exciting, but it may curtail my blogging for a while to come. Still, I couldn’t let the Israeli elections go by without some mention.
By giving Kadima a plurality of 29 Knesset seats, the Israeli voters did two things. They embraced a policy of continued withdrawal from occupied territories, relegating the advocates of complete territorial annexation to a marginal minority; and they endorsed the strategy of unilaterlism that Sharon originally devised and Olmert has maintained. They showed - perhaps not suprisingly - that security and stability are more important to a majority of Israelis than the respective ideals of the reclamation of Biblical Israel on the one hand, and a just and equitable peace with the Palestinians on the other… |inline
