Latest Polls: Kadima Loses a Mandate
As has been written in the past, this blog is not about bogus telepolling information regarding the upcoming 28 March election.
However, this author sees content within this report which rings red lights in a scenario regarding a possible Kadima “win.”. MB
Excerpts;
“If Kadima does indeed win the March 28 elections, party chairman Ehud Olmert would likely form a coalition with the political parties that did not attack Kadima during the campaign, senior sources in Kadima revealed on Saturday night.”
“Kadima officials praised Israel Beitenu leader Avigdor Lieberman and the haredi parties, who have decided against attacking Kadima, knowing that polls indicate the party will form the next coalition.”
“‘There is no doubt that whoever does not attack and acts like a man will have more of a chance to be in the coalition,’ a senior Kadima source close to Olmert said. ‘We don’t think either [Netanyahu or Peretz] will be there [at the helm of their parties] on April 1, so it will be easier to work with Likud and Labor.'”
“United Torah Judaism MK Avraham Ravitz said that his party ‘would look for reasons to join the coalition and not for reasons not to join.’ He said he believed an agreement could be reached quickly and that he hoped that his party would not ‘do nonsense’ by attacking Kadima during the campaign. A Shas spokesman said his party would not attack Kadima because ‘their voters are not our target audience.'”
Commentary;
It seems that once again, as when UTJ joined the Sharon Government before the vote on the “disengagement” [read: expulsion of Jews] from Gush Katif, and when Shas refused to vote with Landau and the Likud rebels on the referendum vote, it’s ALL about the money. Do the UTJ, Shas Institutions mean more than the security of their fellow [non-Chareidi] Jews in their homes and throughout the Land of Israel? Are they willing to see more Amonas and worse IDF, police and Yassamnikim violence and brutality wrought upon their fellow Jewish defenders of Eretz Kedusha — the Holy Land of Israel, in order to fund their institutions?
And consider this; the UTJ, Shas constituency seeming consists primarily of both the fixed [low] income sector, and those who teach in the two institutional systems. They have large families. Can they afford the Olmert “give a little” [to the institutions] and take a lot away from the people in favor of the Fat Cats below? MB
Excerpts;
“Yes, it seems we were wrong about him, Industry and Trade minister Ehud Olmert. All that censure of his decision to hike bread prices at this time of economic stress was misguided. Olmert, it transpires, is a courageous politician and statesman who’s under fire solely and only because he is prepared to make unpopular decisions.”
“Yes, we made a mistake.”
“The mistake was that the popular press suddenly remembered to report on his decisions after he touched the bread. Thing is, if you check his decisions since he took his multiple jobs last year, you find that it’s systematic with him.”
“The real question is how you define ‘public’. We think there is a fundamental mistake right here: there are ‘publics’ to whom Olmert lends an ear, and if we shine the spotlight on these “publics”, we’ll find that his decisions are very popular indeed. Contravening what the minister told the Knesset Finance Committee on Monday, the ‘publics’ Olmert heeds adore having tariffs and prices raised, the more the merrier. Let’s look at a few examples.”
Now seems the time, in these last weeks before the election, for like- minded Rabbanim to lobby hard to Rav Elyashiv and Rav Yosef and present to them the full facts, the full dimensions, implications and consequences of such a potential alliance. MB
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