It’s Been Quite a Year

September 21, 2006 - 2:18 PM by

We know it’s Rosh Hashana and all, but trying to sum it all up can make your head spin. Ariga gives it a shot.

With New Year’s beginning at the end of this week, the media is filling with retrospectives of the past year, which has certainly been one of the most tumultuous in Israeli history. Going strictly by the Jewish calendar, the year included Peretz’s surprise victory over Shimon Peres in the Labor party primaries, Ariel Sharon’s decision to smash the ruling Likud party and form Kadima. Polls showed he and his new party would garner upwards of 40 seats in the Knesset, making it as dominant in Israeli politics as Mapai was in the pre-1973 days. But then came Sharon’s stroke, Ehud Olmert’s surprising vault into the premiership, the Hamas election victory in the Palestinian territories, and a much less than anticipated Kadima victory in the Israeli elections two months later, which forced Kadima to partner with Peretz’s Labor. Two months after that, the war with Hizbollah broke out, and now, on the eve of the coming Jewish Year of 5767, the media is full of demands that Olmert, Peretz and Halutz resign for losing a war that is becoming increasingly evident Israel may have won precisely because of its ‘rogue’ use of power when responding to the Lebanese guerilla group’s border incursion and kidnapping of two soldiers.

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2 Comments on It’s Been Quite a Year

  1. Petra Goepfert on Thu, Sep 21st 2006 4:51 PM

    2. I wish you a blessed new year and I pray for you that you trust in Jehova, who wants to give you the best in the new year. Although things have been difficult we know that our God is the Lord of Israel. He is faithful to his people.

    Shalom

    Petra
    (a christina from the UK

  2. David on Fri, Sep 22nd 2006 3:43 AM

    3. Israel did not “lose the war”.

    First of all it was not a “war” – I have been through wars since I was a kid in Israel beginning with the six day war – this was a military operation.

    Secondly, the operation may not have been adeptly managed, but it has changed things on the Lebanon front for the better.

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