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….

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?

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.

From the article:

His blogger pen name is Shtreimel, the Yiddish word for the round fur hat that a Hasidic man wears on Sabbath.

He styles himself a heretic, a Brooklyn Hasid with beard and earlocks who does not believe in God, sneaks away to snack on Yom Kippur and sometimes grabs a hamburger that isn’t kosher at McDonald’s. On three blogs that he has kept – changing them like safe houses out of fear of exposure – he has confided his spiritual misgivings and mused about hypocrisies he sees among Hasidim, like a willingness to beat up adherents of a rival sect.

Secondly, Peretz DID take over the party in a democratic yet extremely shady way. He went the Feiglin route and signed up as many of his cohorts as possible. So he IS a foreign body to that extent but Peres was obviously being a racialist as my good friend Ali G says.

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