Former Communications Minister Moshe Kahlon looks to be a major player in the March Israeli elections, as he laid out his political positions today in anticipations of establishing a new political party.
Kahlon split off from Likud back in 2013, and says he considers his position “center, a little right.” In contrast to the increasingly rightward shift of Likud, Kahlon is positioning himself as a pro-peace candidate who “won’t miss an opportunity for real peace” with the Palestinians.
Even though Kahlon hasn’t officially unveiled his new party, it is already polling as a relatively major faction for the March vote, and could wind up a kingmaker in the battle between the right and the center-left.
Kahlon insisted that the “real Likud knew how to make peace,” and said that his policies represent the “core Likud,” in contrast to the current Likud leadership.
"…[Kahlon] says he considers his position “center, a little right.”
Ummm, is that the same as the American Republicans promising they're really a "big tent" party?
"A center right peace candidate"? I have a bridge I wish to sell you, it's really a good buy, really it is.
The problem in Israel as in the US is that "The Center" dividing line has shifted so to the right that "The Center" today is nor "The Center" twenty years ago.
Then he'd better change the platform of the likud party, which lays claim the West Bank, and denies sovereignty to the Palestinians.