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The final installment of Sam Seder interviewing Daniel Levy, a political scientist Senior Fellow at both the New America Foundation and The Century Foundation and expert on U.S./ Israeli policies.
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Part 2 of Sam's interview with Daniel Levy about the recent Israeli elections.
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To understand why Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu lost ground in the month leading up to the election, Sharmini Peries speaks to David Newman, Professor of political geography at Ben-Gurion University in Be'ersheva, Israel. He says Netanyahu, who was ten seats ahead only a month ago, has lost much of his ground. His seats have been picked up by Lieberman and Livni. Newman says Ehud Barak, who was previously the third runner up as the leader of the historic Avoda (Labour) Party has dropped to an unprecedented fourth place because most Israelis don't like him. Finally, Newman argues Israel's top parties ought to link forces to create major change in Israeli electoral politics.
David Newman is a Professor of Political Geography and a Senior Research Fellow at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, where he founded the Department of Politics and Government. Editor of the International Journal, Geopolitics, and former columnist for The Jerusalem Post.
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Neslen: Whether Livni or Bibi form the government, the Knesset has taken a big step to the Right. Part 1
Arthur Neslen is the author of Occupied Minds: A Journey Through the Israeli Psyche. He is currently writing a book about Palestinian identity. Between 2004-2008, he lived in Tel Aviv and Ramallah, writing about the Middle East for the Economist.com, Jane's information group, the Observer, the Guardian, Aljazeera.net, Haaretz and many others.
See Part 2 at:
http://current.com/items/89810412/avigdor_lieberman_not_far_right.htm
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Representatives of the Arab Israeli community on the 2009 Israeli elections.
Jesse Rissin Rosenfeld, freelance journalist based in Ramallah and Tel-Aviv speaks to Palestinian community and political leaders about today's Israeli elections. As Israelis go to the polls, many in the Arab-Israeli community see no difference between the candidates and parties in their attitude toward the Palestinians living in Israel and in Palestine. With the exception of a strong pull to the right in Israeli society and a new-found legitimization of Arab-centered racism, many are afraid a hard-line position towards Palestinians is used as an election issue.
Jesse Rosenfeld is a Canadian freelance journalist who has been based in Ramallah since 2007. A former news editor at the McGill Daily and a founding editor of the Montreal Magazine Siafu, Rosenfeld has written for NOW Magazine, The Montreal Mirror, THIS Magazine and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
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Tzipi Livni has seen a sharp turnaround in fortunes for Israel’s ruling Kadima party since she became leader last month and could now beat the right-wing opposition in a coming election, polls indicated on Monday.
Two newspaper surveys published a day after Livni abandoned her efforts to forge a new coalition government and recommended to the president that he call a parliamentary election showed Kadima just beating Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud – a reversal of the results forecast in previous polls, published in August.
Corruption-free
Ms Livni’s Kadima colleagues attributed the gains to her image as a new kind of corruption-free politician, though few appeared to relish going to polls with an untested leader so soon.
“I think that we didn’t want an election. We wanted to continue in the existing (coalition) configuration,” Environment Minister Gideon Ezra of Kadima told Israel’s Army Radio.
“But this is reality,” he said. “We hope we’ll be able to form an even more stable government after the election.”
With Israel focused on choosing a new leadership, prospects for progress in slow-moving US-sponsored peace negotiations with the Palestinians seem dim.
Washington had hoped for at least a framework agreement by the end of the year.
Centrist Kadima was battered by the 2006 Lebanon war and a slew of graft scandals that forced Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign last month, although he remains in office until a new government is formed.
Ms Livni replaced Olmert as Kadima leader on September 17.
President Shimon Peres was expected to tell the Knesset later on Monday that a new government could not be established, setting into motion procedures for a new election in late January or in February.
The poll in Yedioth Ahronoth daily predicted Kadima would take 29 of 120 seats in the Knesset – the same number it has now – while Likud would take 26, up from 12.
The Labour party of Defence Minister Ehud Barak, Olmert’s main ally in the outgoing government, was seen taking 11 seats, down from 19 now.
A similar poll, also conducted on Sunday, for the Maariv newspaper gave Kadima 31 seats, Likud 29 and Labour 11
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"After congratulating Tzipi Livni, I called on her to coordinate a date for general elections as soon as possible," opposition leader and Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu told reporters at a press conference on Thursday evening.
He added that he intended to approach Labor chairman and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Shas Chairman and Labor, Trade and Industry Minister Eli Yishai, and other faction leaders on the subject.
Netanyahu said that "the only way to stop the deteriorating situation is to enable the people of Israel to elect a new government."
The opposition chairman stated that "anyone who fears the people's decision is not worthy of leading."
"In recent months public norms have been widely discussed. The most decent and democratic step is to hold general elections. We need to let the people of Israel determine who will be Israel's prime minister, not Kadima party members," he said.
"In the last two and a half years the Kadima government has failed in security, economy and education," Netanyahu said. "The only way to stop the deteriorating situation is to enable the people to elect a new government."
The opposition chairman claimed his party could "restore security, boost the education system and stabilize our economy."
Netanyahu said he was confident Israel could be put on the track to success.
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