Today’s polls continue to show a right-wing bloc of just over 100 Knesset seats and a left-wing bloc, including Meretz and the Arab parties, of 17 or 18.
*For anyone who considers the status quo untenable, the reason to vote for Meretz, Hadash, Balad, United Arab List-Ta’al or Da’am (a truly integrated party that won’t make it into the Knesset but which definitely belongs there)*, is not because there’s a chance to stop the country from sliding further towards hell next week; that’s going to happen. The reason, instead, to vote for one of the above-mentioned parties is because this country poses an acute, rising danger to itself and others around it, and it requires a fighting, principled opposition to keep it alive, to let the Palestinians and the rest of the world know that there’s something here to work with, something to build on in the future, because authoritarian Israel will not change the status quo on its own; it will have to be forced into it by the Palestinians and the rest of the world. Tuesday’s election will confirm this, and so will the next government. From: Bibi can relax - the 'center-left' is really on the right http://972mag.com/bibi-can-relax-the-center-left-is-really-with-the-right/64093/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ The *Da*'*am* Workers *Party* (Arabic: حزب دعم العمالي, Hebrew: דעם מפלגת פועלים) A new left arrives in Israel <http://en.daam.org.il/?p=350> Posted on 13/01/2013 <http://en.daam.org.il/?p=350> by Da'am Workers Party<http://en.daam.org.il/?author=1> http://en.daam.org.il/?p=350 To view pictures of 5 list members running in Arabic and Russian: http://arb.daam.org.il/ http://rus.daam.org.il/ Asma Aghbaria Zahalka’s blog *Palestinian-Israeli political activist Asma Aghbarieh-Zahalka achieved fame by being the first Arab woman to head a party’s candidate list to the Knesset. **But she really missed her calling as a writer. She writes beautiful Hebrew swapping effortlessly between high brow and slang. Recently she started writing an occasional series about her experiences with her ID card weaving philosophical and political observations into her narrative. Her dead pan black humour tops it all nicely. A pleasure to read which I actually enjoy translating (even while being attached to a drip in a hospital!) Translator: Sol Salbe <http://www.facebook.com/sol.salbe> * *http://en.daam.org.il/?page_id=120* * * * * ----------------------------------------------------------------------- http://972mag.com/watch-candidate-from-jewish-home-party-wants-dome-of-the-rock/64148/ By Noam Sheizaf <http://972mag.com/author/noams/> |Published January 18, 2013 WATCH: Candidate from Jewish Home party wants Dome of the Rock blown up Israeli journalist Yehuda Nuriel came across this video of Jeremy Gimpel, number 14 on Naftali Bennett’s Habait Hayehudi (Jewish Home) party,*speaking before a church in Florida on November 13, 2011. * Among other things, Gimpel seems to want the Dome of the Rock to be blown up, making way for the third Jewish Temple. According to most recent polls, Gempel is expected to enter the next Knesset. *Video:* *http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f-NO4l8Gzj0* * * Between the years 1982-1984, Israeli security services uncovered no less than three plans by Jewish extremists to blow up mosques on the Temple Mount. The most advanced was prepared by The Jewish Underground – a terror organization made up of settlers who were responsible for several murderous attacks on Palestinians across the West Bank. The Jewish Underground was caught in 1984 when its members attempted to place explosives under five Palestinian public buses in Jerusalem. *UPDATE: Here is another video<http://972mag.com/future-member-of-knesset-for-jewish-home-party-dome-of-rock-doesnt-belong-there/64181/> of this kind starring Gimpel.* *http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ljJ_M3n6lkQ* * * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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