Two pieces of bad news for those who sense a change coming in Israeli politics:
-It's very likely that the overwhelming desire for new elections will be subverted, possibly until 2010.
-Tzipi Livni, the likely next prime minister, is a leftist political hack from the corrupt Olmert-Sharon-Kadima crowd.
Caroline Glick details a depressing litany of abuses, and doesn't even mention
how her stint as a Mossad house-sitter was inflated to "Mossad terrorist terminator". In the process, she introduces the charming concept of the vote contractor, local political bosses who registered massive numbers of voters for the Kadima party, often without their knowledge.
Spare yourself the details and
jump to the summary at the end:
She has defrauded the public by lying about the fact that she is actively advancing the cause of Jerusalem's partition. She has defrauded her political colleagues by crafting "grand compromises" she knows will never be implemented. She is defrauding the public by using a fraudulent electorate to catapult her way into the prime minister's office. And she does all of this while deceiving us into believing that she is competent to lead.
She tells us that the cease-fire with Hizbullah she crafted which paved the way for the Iranian proxy's takeover of Lebanon was a diplomatic success. She tells us that we have no option of victory over our enemies and the best we can do is beg others to defend us. And she tells us we should give her the reins of power because she tells us the truth.
The public is powerless today to do anything in the face of Livni's and Kadima's trampling of our democratic system and open contempt for our national interests. It can only be hoped that whenever elections are eventually held, we will punish them for what they have done.
Correction: The public is not powerless to do anything. But the combination of Muslims plus Leftist power brokers makes this very difficult to achieve through legal means.
