{"id":1135,"date":"2006-04-25T15:03:25","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T13:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/25\/yedidya-atlas-analysis-of-israels-2006-elections\/"},"modified":"2006-04-25T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T13:03:25","slug":"yedidya-atlas-analysis-of-israels-2006-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/25\/yedidya-atlas-analysis-of-israels-2006-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Yedidya Atlas’ Analysis of Israel’s 2006 Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Postmortem: Israel’s 2006 Elections, by Yedidya Atlas<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Excerpts;<\/p>\n

This postmortem analysis is an after-the-campaign report to all those who were involved in implementing a national campaign to prevent a leftist victory in the Israeli 2006 elections, with all its ramifications.<\/p>\n

Results<\/p>\n

Approximately two months prior to the elections, it became clear to concerned people on the ideological right that the new party of then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon posed an existential threat to the State of Israel should they garner the number of expected Knesset seats (44-45) then being predicted by the various polls promoted by Israel’s leading media vehicles. It was further obvious that the various parties on the right of the Israeli political spectrum – including, and perhaps especially, the Likud – seemed (and later proved) incapable of launching a successful campaign to alter the media-advocated results before the fact. The last important point was that Kadima, a party comprised of opportunistic and corrupt politicians with no binding ideology (in fact, no ideology at all beyond a secular left-wing agenda), was a party without infrastructure, few if any field workers, and relied solely on gifted PR manipulators and massive media promotion; i.e., without the across-the-board overt advocacy of the Israeli media, Kadima would have sunk significantly in the polls.<\/em> <\/p>\n

After intensive and professional research to determine who made up the Kadima voter base – from which parties they came – and what issues did or didn’t move them, etc., a campaign finally revved up barely six weeks prior to the elections. The campaign was on two fronts: a challenge to the nearly total active support of the media for Kadima; and face-to-face meetings throughout the key target areas to convince potential voters to not vote Left and to vote for the Right. <\/p>\n

It is not the purpose of this analysis to elaborate the operational details of what was done. Rather, I will concentrate on the following:<\/p>\n

1. what major difficulties activists were faced with;
\n2. what was accomplished;
\n3 what said activists failed to achieve; and
\n4. what is to be done now. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Continue reading<\/strong> Postmortem: Israel’s 2006 Elections.<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Postmortem: Israel’s 2006 Elections, by Yedidya Atlas Excerpts; This postmortem analysis is an after-the-campaign report to all those who were involved in implementing a national campaign to prevent a leftist victory in the Israeli 2006 elections, with all its ramifications. Results Approximately two months prior to the elections, it became clear to concerned people on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}