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...candidates may change, but Israeli elections follow a golden rule. Nobody ever wins a majority in the 120-seat Knesset - which often makes for strange alliances, especially amongst the more hawkish, conservative Likud party, more dovish and liberal Labor party and a whole slew of other smaller factions. Judging from the polls, this will hold true in next Tuesday's elections, in which the front-running, self-described centrist Kadima party, headed by acting prime minister Ehud Olmert, is expected to garner less than 40 seats. Kadima will need partners, and increasingly, it looks like one of those may well...
...nine months in prison and a $64,000 fine for illegal fund raising; in Tel Aviv, Israel. Omri, the eldest son of comatose Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, was convicted of concealing $1.3 million in illegal donations to his father's 1999 primary campaign for the leadership of the Likud party?a contest that pushed Sharon toward his election as PM in 2001. A judge delayed the start of Omri's sentence until Aug. 31 because of his father's ill health...
...democratic parliament for 29 years and been three decades removed from the activity of the militant Irgun group, which was formally dissolved at the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Thus, despite his participation in attacks against the British army under the mandate, both the Likud and Begin were far removed from the activities and the ideology of the Irgun. A-Zahhar, in contrast, was elected in large part because of his recent promotion of terrorism; Hamas, which is recognized by the United States and the European Union as a terrorist organization, is not only responsible for hundreds...
...comparison between Hamas and Likud is inaccurate on a number of levels. The first regards religiosity. While Likud was seen as an ultra-nationalist party in 1977, Hamas combines ultra-nationalism with fundamentalist Islamism. It does not merely pursue an international policy that is uncompromising, and territorially maximalist, but also formally seeks the implementation of sharia as the law of the land—with all of the complications that such a program would pose for Muslim women and for the myriad Arab-Christian groups living under its authority...
Furthermore, Likud’s position on relations with the Arabs is diametrically opposed to Hamas’ position on relations with the Jews. Despite the article’s characterization of Likud as a party of bloodstained terrorists, within two years of taking office Likud had made peace with Egypt, Israel’s oldest and most powerful enemy, by ceding to them the Sinai Peninsula, which included both thousands of Israeli citizens and numerous oil fields. Twenty-two years later it was another Likud government—that of Ariel Sharon—that ceded yet more territory...