Trump has always been a fabulous showman. And so far his trial is giving him the opportunity for a lot of publicity. He stopped at a famous Cuban restaurant in Miami right after his arraignment, saying “Food for everyone!” Cuban … Continue reading →
Israel and the US are very different, but there are parallels in their domestic situations at present. In Caroline Glick’s recent article on a speech Netanyahu made to Israel’s generals, I noticed some of these similarities, such as the fact … Continue reading →
Here’s an article that discusses what might be ahead for Netanyahu. One interesting thing about the recent Israeli election is that the polls were wrong: Some pre-election polls had Netanyahu’s Likud and its allied parties polling highly enough to secure … Continue reading →
Most of the votes in the Israeli election have been counted, and it’s looking good for Netanyahu: looked set to return to power on Wednesday after an unprecedented fifth general election in less than four years on Tuesday gave his … Continue reading →
Margot Cleveland speculates: NONE of the three criminal statutes used to justify the search require materials to be “classified”… Espionage Act’s plain language does not require material related to “national defense” to be classified. (Preliminary research confirms my reading but … Continue reading →
The first is France: The left won a lot more seats. A new party, or really a new party coalition called “Nupes,” united the Socialists, Communists, hard left and greens, won somewhere between 149-200 seats, which is a lot more … Continue reading →
Well worth reading.
Continue reading →A defection means that Bennett’s government has lost its fragile majority: Plunging the government into crisis, coalition whip Idit Silman announced Wednesday that she is quitting and will instead work to form a new, right-wing government without a resort to … Continue reading →
Parliamentary systems mean that sometimes coalition governments can form that are composed of various parties that didn’t get all that much popular support. As long as the most popular party fails to get a majority or create a majority coalition, … Continue reading →
The political stance of a country can change very quickly these days, and elections have consequences. But Israeli elections are especially confusing, and I really don’t have a good idea what’s going on in that country at the moment despite … Continue reading →
Israel keeps having elections, but they keep having more or less the same result. That includes the latest one: We still don’t have the final results of Tuesday’s election. It may take till Friday or even next week until the … Continue reading →
…is going to have another election, its fourth in two years.
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