New era for Israel’s Left

[oberliner]

How can we sum up what happened here Monday? Plenty of press conferences, endlessness commentary, much commotion, and quite a bit of nothing. The significance of this day will become truly known only months from now. Right now everything is fresh; the implications and results will be understood only much later. At this time we can only draw an outline, map the winners and losers, and wait patiently to see how wrong, or right, we were.

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Then there’s the Left. Friends, this blissful moment shall pass by the time you wake up. This is the time to join forces, clear the leftovers, and embark on a new way. Yet here we see them already returning to the old words and old friends. Enough already. The time has come to establish a real alternative featuring an incisive, precise, and bold Left.

Say it clearly: Full Jewish-Arab partnership, without any “buts.” Democracy for all citizens. A complete end to the occupation, without any deals and sophisticated formulae, without blocs, and without leftovers. And a truly social economy. Turn your backs to Barak and establish the Labor-Meretz-Hadash coalition. Embark on a new path. A large leftist bloc against all the rest. Then we’ll see how well they fare against us.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4015139,00.html

Author is Avraham Burg.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

1. I think this would be an excellent thing, but I don't think such a block would be large, sadly.

And how they would fair against us would be "well", I fear.