03-28-2006, 03:12 PM
03-28-2006, 03:20 PM
my guess is dreidles & yarmulkas
03-28-2006, 05:41 PM
I believe that Kadima was the party that Sharon started when he broke from the Likud.
03-29-2006, 08:31 AM
TMcCarty Wrote:CNN breaking that they are going to win most seats in their elections.
... What are they all about?
Wikipedia says:
Israel's media reported that Kadima released the main points of its national agenda on November 28, 2005 as presented by Justice Minister Tzipi Livni in a drafted statement: [1]
* The Israeli nation has a national and historic right to the whole of Israel. However, in order to maintain a Jewish majority, part of the Land of Israel must be given up to maintain a Jewish and democratic state.
* Israel shall remain a Jewish state and homeland. Jewish majority in Israel will be preserved by territorial concessions to Palestinians.
* Jerusalem and large settlement blocks in the West Bank will be kept under Israeli control.
* The Israeli national agenda to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and achieve two states for two nations will be the road map. It will be carried out in stages: dismantling terror organizations, collecting firearms, implementing security reforms in the Palestinian Authority, and preventing incitement. At the end of the process, a demilitarized Palestinian state devoid of terror will be established.
* Israel's political system will be modified to ensure stability: Legislative proposals will be made to increase the MKs' commitment to enable the public's bypassing central committees and vote contractors, and bring an end to the tyranny of the Likud Central Committee. One possibility would be holding primary, regional and personal elections to the Knesset and the Prime Minister's office.
* Kadima would not rule out a future coalition partnership with any Israeli political party or person.
* According to Uriel Reichman (former chairman of the board and founder of the Shinui party) Kadima wants to see a "presidential" system, in which voters choose the prime minister and legislators on an individual basis and not as part of a party list, with Knesset members elected according to specific regions of the country. [2]
04-04-2006, 10:40 AM
dfarr Wrote:my guess is dreidles & yarmulkas
Because being Jewish is all about playing with dreidles and wearing yarmulkes (guess women can't really be Jewish). That is a very enlightened view for an educated person to have.
Sarahbelle, whose opinions I have come to respect in my lurking days, summed it up pretty well.
The Kadima party is similar to the National Front (le Front Nationale) in France. They are extremely xenophobic, and their main objective is a purely Jewish state. They do not believe that any non-Jews belong in Israel, specifically the Palestinians. It does not even matter if a person is born in Israel; in order to truly be Israeli, one has to be Jewish.
Despite what atlases show, there are no defined Israeli borders. The Kadima party wants to establish borders and two very different areas with Jews on one side and Arabs on the other side.
Even though I am very much in favor of Israel (try finding a Jew that isn't), I can't help but be saddened by the fact that this party is winning by appealing to one of the worst parts of human nature: racism. While previous parties in Israel have also lobbied against the non-Jew population, there is a big difference between removing a group of people from your consciousness and removing them from within your borders.
04-04-2006, 10:44 AM
blazinj Wrote:dfarr Wrote:my guess is dreidles & yarmulkas
Because being Jewish is all about playing with dreidles and wearing yarmulkes (guess women can't really be Jewish). That is a very enlightened view for an educated person to have.
its called a joke. ill give u a dollar to go buy a sense of humor.
04-04-2006, 10:54 AM
blazinj Wrote:Sarahbelle, whose opinions I have come to respect in my lurking days, summed it up pretty well.
Thank you very much. :)
04-04-2006, 10:57 AM
You can keep it and go upgrade yours. Maybe then you'd be funny.
04-04-2006, 11:01 AM
blazinj Wrote:You can keep it and go upgrade yours. Maybe then you'd be funny.
ill try. sarah has sucked all the humor out of me.
04-04-2006, 01:32 PM
dfarr Wrote:blazinj Wrote:You can keep it and go upgrade yours. Maybe then you'd be funny.
ill try. sarah has sucked all the humor out of me.
There is a really funny, albeit tasteless, joke here. But I digress.
Ah, the hell with it.
That's not all she sucked out of you. (Sorry, Sarah. It was a softball I couldn't pass up.)
04-04-2006, 01:47 PM
BatesUAB Wrote:dfarr Wrote:blazinj Wrote:You can keep it and go upgrade yours. Maybe then you'd be funny.
ill try. sarah has sucked all the humor out of me.
There is a really funny, albeit tasteless, joke here. But I digress.
Ah, the hell with it.
That's not all she sucked out of you. (Sorry, Sarah. It was a softball I couldn't pass up.)
shouldnt u be driving to mississippi to see justice scalia?
04-04-2006, 01:59 PM
BatesUAB Wrote:dfarr Wrote:blazinj Wrote:You can keep it and go upgrade yours. Maybe then you'd be funny.
ill try. sarah has sucked all the humor out of me.
There is a really funny, albeit tasteless, joke here. But I digress.
Ah, the hell with it.
That's not all she sucked out of you. (Sorry, Sarah. It was a softball I couldn't pass up.)
Dont say such things.
Dfarr will get too excited and hes still at work.
04-04-2006, 09:41 PM
Sarahbelle18 Wrote:BatesUAB Wrote:dfarr Wrote:blazinj Wrote:You can keep it and go upgrade yours. Maybe then you'd be funny.
ill try. sarah has sucked all the humor out of me.
There is a really funny, albeit tasteless, joke here. But I digress.
Ah, the hell with it.
That's not all she sucked out of you. (Sorry, Sarah. It was a softball I couldn't pass up.)
Dont say such things.
Dfarr will get too excited and hes still at work.
He might have just got fired.
04-04-2006, 09:44 PM
dfarr Wrote:BatesUAB Wrote:dfarr Wrote:blazinj Wrote:You can keep it and go upgrade yours. Maybe then you'd be funny.
ill try. sarah has sucked all the humor out of me.
There is a really funny, albeit tasteless, joke here. But I digress.
Ah, the hell with it.
That's not all she sucked out of you. (Sorry, Sarah. It was a softball I couldn't pass up.)
shouldnt u be driving to mississippi to see justice scalia?
Actually, I had just got done listening to him when I posted that one. I was at Big Drew's apartment in Jackson. I got back home late this afternoon.