Comments on: Sarid on Ass Kissing http://www.jewlicious.com/2005/12/sarid-on-ass-kissing/ It's a Jewish Blog! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:17:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben-David http://www.jewlicious.com/2005/12/sarid-on-ass-kissing/#comment-162474 Ben-David Sun, 11 Dec 2005 09:39:45 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/index.php/sarid-on-ass-kissing/#comment-162474 Oh, I get it - and for the 50+ years during which the Yishuv and the State were run by left-wing nepotism, favoritism, and mutual back-scratching, that wasn't "ass-kissing", it was.... socialism. There are 2 valid points in here - that (1) the lack of elections by district makes it possible for a pol to build an entire career by sucking up to ANY party's machinery, with no regard for a citizen constituecy. And that (2) after Begin the Likud was overrun by slimey dealmakers, who are now being removed (many of them have gone over to Kadimah - a raft just swarming with the lower vermin of Israeli politics). But Sarid is hardly the person to be weighing in from Olympus about either of these points. Oh, I get it – and for the 50+ years during which the Yishuv and the State were run by left-wing nepotism, favoritism, and mutual back-scratching, that wasn’t “ass-kissing”, it was…. socialism.

There are 2 valid points in here – that (1) the lack of elections by district makes it possible for a pol to build an entire career by sucking up to ANY party’s machinery, with no regard for a citizen constituecy. And that (2) after Begin the Likud was overrun by slimey dealmakers, who are now being removed (many of them have gone over to Kadimah – a raft just swarming with the lower vermin of Israeli politics).

But Sarid is hardly the person to be weighing in from Olympus about either of these points.

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