One-Trick Pony

September 6, 2006 - 10:56 AM by Allison

There is a lot of disgruntlement with the government at the moment, and much of it is making its way into Israeli blogs. Liz asks:

If members of our government aren’t going to be passionate about Israel, why should I be?
I’m angry, like most other Israelis are these days. Especially those in the North and Southwest.

And David Bogner at Treppenwitz says that if the Kadima Party should just admit that they are lost without the single issue they ran on in the elections, pack up and go home:

Now that the one and only trick our national pony knew how to perform has turned out to be, well, not very entertaining… I have to wonder how it is that Kadima is still in power? Ehud Olmert has announced that the only thing he and his party stood for in the last elections now turns out to be “irrelevant”.

So where are the deafening cries for a vote of no-confidence? Where are the massive demonstrations calling for new elections. Why haven’t the political right and left run to reclaim their broader agendas and abandoned Kadima to die an ignoble death now that its single platform has been discredited?

Before, during and after the last elections, Ehud Olmert expressed a single guiding philosophy; Unilateral withdrawal. So should Olmert now be allowed to spend the remainder of his tenure trying on new philosophies for size… and busily covering his ass?

Like our old friend Descartes… I think not.

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