{"id":542,"date":"2006-01-05T22:28:54","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T22:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/05\/election-politics-without-sharon\/"},"modified":"2006-01-05T22:30:58","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T22:30:58","slug":"election-politics-without-sharon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/05\/election-politics-without-sharon\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Politics Without Sharon …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weekly Commentary: Post Sharon Era Elections – Program Over Personality<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Full Text:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Make no mistake about it: the overwhelming majority of Israelis oppose unilateral withdrawals (less than twenty percent supported more ‘unilateral disengagements’ in a poll conducted last month by Mina Tzemah for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs’s Defensible Borders Project).<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

“But in a personality rather than policy-driven decision, many of the very same people who tell pollsters that they oppose the post-election retreats Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has in mind also say they would vote for a Sharon-led Kadima Party.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“And there was an underlying logic to this choice.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“After all, Israel’s survival isn’t just based on good policy – it can also depend on critical crisis management.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It is 4:00 AM and Syria has suddenly advanced a battalion towards the
\nborder. Who do you want to be woken up to handle the crisis? Ariel Sharon, Binyamin Netanyahu or Amir Peretz?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“There were a lot of Israelis who thought Sharon’s policies were madness but still would prefer Sharon at a fateful 4:00 AM over the others.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

“But with Sharon effectively off the Kadima list there simply isn’t anyone there who enjoys this very special public confidence.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Kadima can be expected to appeal to voters to honor “Sharon’s legacy” on election day, but ,it’s not a particularly powerful appeal. Especially when the “legacy” is a policy the public opposes.<\/strong>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weekly Commentary: Post Sharon Era Elections – Program Over Personality Full Text: “Make no mistake about it: the overwhelming majority of Israelis oppose unilateral withdrawals (less than twenty percent supported more ‘unilateral disengagements’ in a poll conducted last month by Mina Tzemah for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs’s Defensible Borders Project).” “But in a […]<\/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-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","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=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}