OK so first a story - I was just going through Adi's backpack (in a futile search for missing glasses) and found a drawing of three girls playing a game. On the drawing she had written "for illustrative purposes only."
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And now for thoughts on the elections.
First of all - I guessed wrong, clearly, although I was close on some things. Mostly I thought the hareidi vote would split, with some Gimmel voters going to Yachad, but that didn't really happen, and I didn't predict the move of 4-5 seats from Jewish Home to Likud.
Second - ever since it became overwhelmingly clear that Netanyahu won, there have been a bunch of articles and facebook posts predicting racism, war-mongering, and all other kinds of doom and gloom. So just to clarify:
- people who vote for the political right generally don't hate Arabs. Really! OK, you guys here probably didn't need to be told that, but it's ridiculous how many people do need to be told that.
Actually, I know Arab Jews (aka Sephardi/Mizrachi Jews) who vote for right-wing parties and say they think left-wing voters tend to be racist against Arabs. Something that I don't think is true - just pointing out that this whole my-opponents-are-bad-people thing goes both ways.
- Netanyahu allegedly said on the day of elections that he won't agree to a Palestinian state. So just for the record - absolutely no one who voted for him thought that was a real thing. It was obvious that Netanyahu will continue his generic approach of encouraging peace talks while remaining highly skeptical that the Palestinian Authority genuinely wants peace. It's what he's always done. It's what he confirmed immediately after the elections that he plans to keep doing.
- This whole thing about "Obama didn't call Netanyahu yet because he HATES ISRAEL" is beyond ridiculous. But who could miss yet another opportunity for media hysteria over Obama and Israel?
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And now, to continue searching for children's missing things. Wish me luck in not stumbling across anything too gross in the recesses of their backpacks and under-bed and -cubby spaces.
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And now for thoughts on the elections.
First of all - I guessed wrong, clearly, although I was close on some things. Mostly I thought the hareidi vote would split, with some Gimmel voters going to Yachad, but that didn't really happen, and I didn't predict the move of 4-5 seats from Jewish Home to Likud.
Second - ever since it became overwhelmingly clear that Netanyahu won, there have been a bunch of articles and facebook posts predicting racism, war-mongering, and all other kinds of doom and gloom. So just to clarify:
- people who vote for the political right generally don't hate Arabs. Really! OK, you guys here probably didn't need to be told that, but it's ridiculous how many people do need to be told that.
Actually, I know Arab Jews (aka Sephardi/Mizrachi Jews) who vote for right-wing parties and say they think left-wing voters tend to be racist against Arabs. Something that I don't think is true - just pointing out that this whole my-opponents-are-bad-people thing goes both ways.
- Netanyahu allegedly said on the day of elections that he won't agree to a Palestinian state. So just for the record - absolutely no one who voted for him thought that was a real thing. It was obvious that Netanyahu will continue his generic approach of encouraging peace talks while remaining highly skeptical that the Palestinian Authority genuinely wants peace. It's what he's always done. It's what he confirmed immediately after the elections that he plans to keep doing.
- This whole thing about "Obama didn't call Netanyahu yet because he HATES ISRAEL" is beyond ridiculous. But who could miss yet another opportunity for media hysteria over Obama and Israel?
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And now, to continue searching for children's missing things. Wish me luck in not stumbling across anything too gross in the recesses of their backpacks and under-bed and -cubby spaces.
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