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Oh, For the Days of the Party Boss and the Back-Room Deal!
Haim Watzman There was a membership meeting at shul Saturday night to discuss plans to finish our building’s unfinished basement. A well-meaning, socially-concerned member (true, those labels apply to...
View ArticleAn Arab Prime Minister for Israel?
Haim Watzman In the wake of Barack Obama’s victory in the U.S., there have been a spate of op-eds and blog posts on whether an Arab could ever become prime minister of Israel. Some present it as a...
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Why I’m Going Green
Haim Watzman For years I have preached against small parties. Whenever my friends get excited by the latest new and fashionable political movement or the latest political star whose ego-trip involves...
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Standing Up for Man’s Right to Cheat
Haim Watzman Anastasia in a thoughtful moment I wasn’t planning to post today but I couldn’t let South Jerusalem’s readers head into the holiday season without alerting them to Anastasia Michaeli, the...
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The Knesset Loses a Philosopher
Haim Watzman It’s a ritual that Israel observes before every election. One or more highly-qualified exemplars of what an Israeli parliamentarian lose out in their party primaries or decide, in disgust...
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Go Green!
Haim Watzman Eran Ben-Yemini of TY-Meimad Two months ago, I announced that I’d decided to vote for the Green Movement. I urged the Greens to form a joint slate with MK Michael Melchior’s Meimad...
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Drawing the Line
Haim Watzman Ben-Gurion The sad story about the election Israel will hold tomorrow is that, no matter what the precise results, the balance of power will be held by a group of legislators contemptuous...
View ArticleUnderstanding Lieberman’s Voters
Haim Watzman Why do I really dislike Avigdor Lieberman? Because he’s forcing me to write about politics. When Gershom and I started this blog, I thought he’d take the political beat and leave me free...
View ArticleCold Feet–Why Israeli Voters Shouldn’t Get Their Fantasy Government
Haim Watzman The talk in the locker room at the Jerusalem Pool has been surprisingly conciliatory since the election last week. Dani, who voted Meretz (after seriously considering Hadash) and Siman,...
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Summer of ’88 —“Necessary Stories” from The Jerusalem Report
Haim Watzman I didn’t understand why the woman with the wispy hair looked so worried or why she kept glancing behind her, in the direction of the corridor of her apartment on Carlebach Street. I stood...
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