Comments on: Politics in Israel: Never Boring

By: Soccer Dad

Soccer Dad — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 15:04:24 +0000

Haveil Havalim #47

Welcome to Soccer Dad, I am your host for Haveil Havalim #47. Jewish personalities Rishon Rishon (translates to “First of all”), Rishon Rishon tells of the wisdom of Rabbi Zusha. Not Quite Perfect is the official artist of Haveil Havalim….

By: Rabbi Yonah

Rabbi Yonah — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:07:04 +0000

too funny. oy too funny. thank you ck.

By: PP

PP — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:11:47 +0000

How much do I love that graphic? Let me count the ways!!

By: gimpy

gimpy — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:13:40 +0000

Good call…

By: ck

ck — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:11:47 +0000

I agree gimpy. I am glad you picked up on the fallacy of the snobs vs. slobs dichotomy. Amir Peretz is a talented, accomplished and intelligent man. Gigi Peres however, is a classless buffoon. The graphic was inspired by his idiotic statements more than anything else.

By: Israellycool

Israellycool — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:15:10 +0000

Photoshopping Brilliance

Here is Dave’s take on Israeli politics at the moment.

Brilliant.

I have only one small suggestion. How about photoshopping Yossi Beilin’s face on the gopher, since he is like the pest that won’t go away?

By: ofri

ofri — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:41:08 +0000

yea but he didn’t go to college. he’s an underdog type.

By: gimpy

gimpy — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:38:42 +0000

You know, Amir Peretz has been head of Histadrut for a very long time. He’s sort of Israel’s version of the head of the CSN, and has long commanded a good deal of authority. If there is an power elite in Israel, he is certainly part of it. While I hate to cast aspersion on a good ethnic stereotype — I love ck’s posts as much as the next guy — snobs vs slobs doesn’t quite describe this situation.

By: taltman

taltman — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:45:02 +0000

Oh, and mad props to ck for depicting Shimon with a skipper’s cap, harking back to his sea-faring days as head of the Israeli navy in ‘48.

By: themiddle

themiddle — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:19:50 +0000

Laya, thanks for the Weekend at Yassir’s reminder. That was a serious, laugh out loud, spit your tea at the monitor graphic. This one’s pretty good too.

That Gigi – who knew Shimon has a brother – may be justifiably angry, but that was a very stupid thing to say. Note that Shimon’s office offered unhesitating and unequivocal public criticism of the comment as soon as it was made public.

But this does touch on one of the reasons Labor has not been able to beat the Likud in a while. The “Mizrahim” in Israel feel they’re not wanted in Labor. So it takes a brusque man like Peretz, who may or may not have gamed the elections, to break through to the leadership. If he wasn’t being so brutal right now, he would be trying to unify the party instead of doing a putsch.

As for my earlier post about Sharon having made the mistake of his life, I admitted then as I admit now that I might be wrong. However, regardless of what the polls might show today, the elections are not taking place today but in 4 months…and that’s a lifetime in Israel. Let’s wait and see.