A new poll released today by Israel Radio is hinting at a potential leftward shift in the nation’s political landscape, though the data is entirely predicated on a theoretical move by news anchor Yair Lapid into party politics.
The poll suggests that if Lapid created a party, something he is rumored to be considering, he would leapfrog over nearly the entire pack and instantly have the second largest number of seats in Israel’s parliament, with 15 seats.
The big loser in this move would be the centrist Kadima Party, but the poll also suggests that Lapid could use its position to create a center-left majority, while the current far-right coalition would need to recruit Kadima to continue ruling.
How realistic this would be is unclear, but Lapid’s father ran the secular, pro-free market Shinui Party into a similar level of popularity in the 2003 elections. The party mostly disappeared a falling out with the Sharon government over religious subsidies.
israel is left wing
some how over the years we have switched the word right wing to mean warmonger.
if the state will fund more housing construction or will the state subsidies private housing construction is not really a difference
No, from a broad historical view Israel is certainly not left wing.
It certainly _started out_ left wing—the mainstay of the Zionist movement, at Israel's founding, was pretty leftist, IIRC.
But it's leftwing no longer.
Of course, if you choose to define "right wing" as a government that gives no such subsidies, then there are probably no right wing governments in the world.
i think i was clear in that left wing meant the government doing it itself.
while right wing meant the government subsidizing private enterprise to do it.
i never said right wing is anarcho-capitalism/libertarianism.
Yeah, right. Whatever.
You realize that it's "we" who "have switched the word right wing to mean warmonger" but the fact that y'all ARE warmongers, right?
so left wing means antiwar?
i would have to disagree.
i guess we could also say that right wing means suite and tie and left wing means tiedye hippy.
but i guess that's to be expected when words are meaningless.
Come again? Feel free to speak English next time. Or Spanish, I can understand that one too.
ok then how about an English writer to get the language straight.
G.k. Chesterton.
"The fact is very simple. Unless you are going deliberately to prevent a thing being good, you cannot prevent it being worth fighting for. It is impossible to prevent a possible conflict of civilizations, because it is impossible to prevent a possible conflict between ideals. If there were no longer our modern strife between nations, there would only be a strife between Utopias"
the problem with the left today is that are they are the true followers of fukayama, thinking they have found the end of history and any divergence is pure reaction.
It still has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with what I said. You can copy, paste and type till you're blue in the face and still, you're not addressing my point. You've got a serious reading comprehension problem. You must hang out at ICH that's where all become that thick…in case you weren't that way when you arrived.
My apologies. I just realized that you're trolling for Israel and ICH is anti-semite and I don't use that word in jest, they truly are the most virulent bunch on the internet. You should visit them, I'm sure they'd set you straight. And they're all about your same IQ level too. 🙂
The Left is the same shit as the Right only they stand on the opposite side of the street…but that's only because it's the side with the shade.
you just said right wing means warmonger and now you say left wing means warmonger. and your saying im the one who makes no senses.
you can say that all right wingers are warmonger and that all left wingers are warmongers
but you can't say that the words left wing and right wing both mean warmonger
unless you want to say the word political means warmonger
You read what whatever you want. Who am I to tell you what you want to see/read?
Holy shit, dude, what a shame that Groucho Marx is dead. You could write scripts for the guy that would be far more convoluted than anything ever written for him. Wow!
And that means what, exactly? Look at the US, supposedly, we've got a "liberal" president. Hark!