Israeli elections: an exercise in UTTER futility!

[Yerusha]

"Another Costly Exercise in Futility


Prof. Paul Eidelberg


Article I: How can any election in Israel be other than another costly exercise in futility when thirty and more parties compete for seats in the Knesset?


Article II. How can any election in Israel be other than another exercise in futility when that fragmented Legislature is subservient to an Executive Branch whose Cabinet consists of five or six rival parties incapable of pursuing a coherent and resolute as well as long-term national strategy?


Article III. How can any election in Israel be other than another exercise in futility when none of the leaders of these parties can articulate a political philosophy that clearly relates their party programs to the cherished ideas and values of the nation, hence to the nation’s physical and spiritual well-being?


Article IV. How can any election in Israel be other than an exercise in futility when the leaders of her political parties are preoccupied with immediate interests to such an extent as to be incapable of articulating what Israel stands for as a nation, and how their party programs reconcile the need for permanence and change, or for stability and creativity? "