| Elections Day - Family Bar-B-Q! |
It’s elections day today (the 5th in the past 10 years… Kinda takes the importance out of it). I drove to Ashkelon, where I vote and were some of the extended family meets up for a Bar-B-Q! I need to get down to the garden now, to help making the meat, but you can enjoy the live pictures the webcam will broadcast of the event!! 
Later: Well, the day is over, elections over too. I thought at first to post some remarks about the elections themselves, but finding myself watching the science channel on TV instead of looking at the news reporting the results kinda tells you how much I cared. I’m surprised I even bothered going to vote. (I haven’t gone the last elections. Was in university and had better things to do then to catch a 2 hours bus back to Ashkelon and then spend another 2 hours returning to Jerusalem).
Anyway, Seems I wasn’t the only one who didn’t care. This was the Israeli elections with the lowest ever participation rate, standing on 68% (which means 32% went traveling, shopping or just relaxing, but didn’t even bothered to go and vote). Well.. That was MY saying about the elections. Who cares, anyway, all those politicians are the same and we all know it doesn’t matter. The only thing these elections caused was a waste a millions of shekels. For nothing. Buh. Atleast we had a BarBQ!
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Um, sure, those elections didn’t matter a bit. Except maybe to the few thousand extra Palestinians who’ll die at the hands of Sharon the Butcher.
But hey, who gives a shit about that worthless lot, huh? Hell, they’re not even real humans, after all, just a bunch of uneducated goyim…
When will Isreal stop being the hemmoroid on the asshole our world?
Greg (just another shallow, unthinking Amerikan gentile)
Greg, Sharon was PM before and he’s PM now. I’m not part of the right-wing parties in Israel and I still think Sharon proved to be quite responsible PM. You got to understand the Israeli-Palestine conflict got many sides.
The situation is currently that peace cannot be achieved at the moment - and this time it’s cause of the Palestinians. They had several opportunities in the past to sign peace, but they were trying to get more. Even the agreements they HAVE signed they did not respect. The current situation is that none of the organizations there is willing to sign peace and even if Arafat was willing to sign agreement (which he doesn’t) and willing to stop terror (which he not only encourage but his organization is actually taking active part in!) then he’s too weak now to enforce anything on the rest of the organizations.
Make no mistake here, Greg - The left wing will not be any softer to the Palestinians. EVERYBODY in Israel stopped believing them and no one here think there is anyone that we can talk with on their side. The Left-Wing solution is One-Sided Separation - not a peace agreement. Being leftwing here means you’re going to withdraw some settlements (by the way, more then 70% of the Israeli people declare they are willing to evacuate settlements in exchange to real peace!! - That’s even higher then the precent of people that went to vote this elections!) and make a solid border which we’ll decide upon. Currently no one, except extremists from the left, is talking about signing peace, basically cause you do not have anyone that really represents the Palestinians, and that enforce them on thier side.
The PA is not controlling the population. When Arafat wanted to make a show and arrest several Hamas activists, the PA police got into a gun fight with the Hamas and withdrew without arresting anyone. And the ones they DO arrest, are spending about 2 days in jail (where they are not treated as prisoners or anything - the bars aren’t even locked!) and then being released quietly. Many time IDF caught terrorists that according to the Palestinians are still in their jail.
I DO want all this madness to end, but to my sorrow, it’s not going to happen anytime soon. The sad thing is that the ones that suffer the most are innocent Palestinians. But hey, if several Israelis are doing something wrong, the world blame all the Israelis, right? So I guess you should blame these Palestinians as well.
Well, I personally believe there are many sides. The reality is that the second someone gave Israel a state after WWII on this particular land, it was going to be hell. I am not against someone having a homeland, but I can’t see how anyone would have thought this was going to work. In fact I truly believe until the Islamic world stops being a violent religion there can really be no hope for this area of the world. And just a note….Islam was founded on violence…so I can’t see how that will change. Doesn’t mean everyone in Islam is violent, but there is a predisposition among many it seems.
I can also understand the feeling about elections. Half the time the only people running for these offices are people who are little wacked anyhow. No sane person wants to put up with such garbage. We are having the same problem here in the US. Very few times any one running for any political office is worth anything.
Please pray for my Catholic brothers and sisters who live in Israel.
thanks!
USA, Ohio,56
Your apathetic attitude about voting in national election is discussting. You Should be glad you are in the ONLY country in the Middle East which will let you vote at all. Maybe you will learn to be more appreciative when older or when the bombing hits closer to home.
Hi Bill, Good to see you again
Well, your attitute might be closer to mine if you had to suffer elections every year and a half/2 years. I’m 27 and I’ve already seen 5 elections! And tell you the truth, one time it’s the right in power, one time it’s the left and hey, surprise, things are just geting worse anyway!
This feeling isn’t something I inveneted. This elections had the lowest ever participation precentage (68%). In addition to being tired of elections and the waste of so much money on such frequent basis, there isn’t someone worth voting for. There wasn’t any selection - Sharon is the single most experienced politician around. The labor’s Mitzna is a new face and he had to base his position inside the party during the whole campaign, which showed a divided party. So there wasn’t any REAL alternative for Sharon, even if people wanted it.
BTW, the not-so-secret truth that goeas around israel is that people did NOT voted for the Likud party - they have voted for Sharon! All those 38 seats may confuse people that the Likud and it’s ideas were what the israeli cared about. Bullshit. The voted for the man, not the party and not the ideas.
I, myself, am not disappointed with the reelection of Sharon. I may not agree with his way in some cases but had proven to be a responsible person. The fact that he’s staying close to the americans just make me feel even better.