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All Along The Watchtower
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« on: November 02, 2022, 03:22:18 PM »

Netanyahu really is a survivor huh
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All Along The Watchtower
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« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2022, 04:04:51 PM »

How has Netanyahu lasted so long.  Even when parties stay in power a long time, I've found usually after a decade in power, people get tired of person.  Of wealthy countries, I believe Mark Rutte in Netherlands only won who has been in power more than a decade and interestingly enough Netherlands like Israel is very fragmented in terms of parties.

I imagine, in addition to the fragmentation of Bibi’s opponents, it has something to do with Ariel Sharon having an incapacitating stroke at a most inopportune time and Ehud Olmert being criminally corrupt and weak on national security in many ways—never a good thing to be in Israeli politics, obviously.

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All Along The Watchtower
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« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2022, 12:19:07 AM »

Huge contrast although not surprising.  Seems like Jerusalem had close to 75% go for Bibi bloc and quite right wing while Tel Aviv Bibi bloc got only around 25% roughly so very much a mix of centrist and left wing.  But no surprise.  Having been to both cities, Jerusalem struck me as a very religious city while Tel Aviv quite secular.
Truly the earth-shattering insight we were all craving for.

You'd be shocked how many people don't know this, even though it's such a basic and elegant fact that you can make a successful educated guess at it based purely on generalized stereotypes without even needing to know anything about contemporary Israeli society.

Reject Modernity (Tel Aviv)
Embrace Tradition (Jerusalem)
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All Along The Watchtower
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« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2022, 02:21:05 PM »

Huge contrast although not surprising.  Seems like Jerusalem had close to 75% go for Bibi bloc and quite right wing while Tel Aviv Bibi bloc got only around 25% roughly so very much a mix of centrist and left wing.  But no surprise.  Having been to both cities, Jerusalem struck me as a very religious city while Tel Aviv quite secular.
Truly the earth-shattering insight we were all craving for.

You'd be shocked how many people don't know this, even though it's such a basic and elegant fact that you can make a successful educated guess at it based purely on generalized stereotypes without even needing to know anything about contemporary Israeli society.

Reject Modernity (Tel Aviv)
Embrace Tradition (Jerusalem)

Reject Modernity (Likud)
Embrace Tradition (Mapai)

Yeah, Israel's actual roots are secular and socialist, no matter how inconvenient this fact might be to the people who run things now.

Or indeed, how inconvenient it is to certain narratives that are fashionable among an altogether politically different crowd outside of (and opposed to) Israel.
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