Tzipi Livni wins Kadima Party Primary
Posted by ReactionaryIsraeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni won the Kadima Party primary, which means that she will likely become the next Prime Minister of Israel, pending Ehud Olmert’s resignation (expected Sunday) and Kadima forming a Government (without a general election). Livni received 43% of the vote, beating out Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz (42%), Meir Sheetrit (8.5%), and Avi Dichter (6.5%).
Caroline Glick had this to say about Livni before the election:
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni may not be a crook, but she is a fraud. And if polls are to be believed, Livni the fraud is just one fraudulent election away from becoming our next prime minister…
Unlike all the other party primaries that have been held over the years, this one is designed not as a preparatory step ahead of general elections to the Knesset. Rather, it is intended to replace general elections. The expressed goal of Livni and her three opponents - Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, Public Security Minister Avi Dichter and Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit - is not to ready Kadima for elections, but to select a new prime minister who will form a governing coalition that will bar the public from electing its representatives until March 2010.
It should be noted that Glick is a former Likud Party official (the same party as former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu). This part is interesting to me because of the ‘Vote Contractor’ angle (think ‘Community Organizer’ and ACORN):
Only 15 percent of Kadima’s members joined the party on their own initiative. According to analyses conducted over the past several months, these 15% are people who were swept up in the initial excitement when Kadima was formed by Ariel Sharon in 2005…
The other 85% of Kadima’s 70,000 members are people who were brought into the party by those nefarious standard-bearers of Israeli politics of recent years: the vote contractors.
Vote contractors are political bosses and paid political operatives who peddle their influence in various communities, labor unions and population sectors to persuade citizens to join specific parties as bloc voters.
In its brief political life span, Kadima’s membership rolls have been subject to multiple criminal investigations. In one case now under investigation, up to 1,000 people were signed up for the party without their knowledge. Vote contractors forged their signatures on membership forms and paid their membership fees.
Seems like liberals use the same tactics all over the world. Saul Alinsky would be so proud.
One of my favorite websites is ‘Sweetness & Light’, here is a post about ACORN and their history of undermining the US election system - ”to overwhelm, paralyze, and discredit the voting system through fraud, protests, propaganda and vexatious litigation.”
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September 18th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Brian: Would you please read the following link: http://europebusines.blogspot.com/2008/09/bush-agrees-to-war-on-iran.html
and give your comment/summary based on your vast knowledge of the way we are going in the U.S./Israel?
Thanks
September 18th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Joe Cupp - First, Brian would explain that this post is from his guest contributor - Reactionary. And I hope you’re using the phrase “vast knowledge” sarcastically…
Second, I suggest reading this article from ‘In From The Cold’ (it gives you an idea of the capabilities of the ‘bunker busters’ to which your link refers) - short story, the bombs your link describes aren’t very useful for taking out hardened nuclear facilities, they are more useful for “precision strikes in an urban environment” - plus Israel already has a few of the bombs that could take out hardened facilities:
http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2008/09/consolation-acquisition.html
Third, I don’t subscribe to your link’s ‘neo-con’ bashing but I find his enthusiasm for Sarah Palin encouraging.
Finally, it’s an interesting article, thanks for the link. I tend to believe Bush / McCain when they say that Iran cannot be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. I believe that Iranian nukes would pose an existential threat to Israel and that Israel should do what is necessary to protect their people. I believe that Iran is developing nukes and delivery systems. I also believe that War with Iran would really suck.
IMO Israel bought the bombs in preparation for the next War in Lebanon, sadly, it’s about time for another one…
September 18th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
OT (kind of) - I finally changed my template to show the author’s name at the top of the post. Hopefully it will reduce the confusion.