[Debate] Hadash Protests Against Netanyahu's Deal with Mofaz for "War Government"

[Ran Greenstein]

The most crucial factor about the war front is that Israel has no
capacity to destroy the Iranian nuclear programme on its own.
Technically it cannot do that without US active involvement, and
politically it'd be suicidal for it to attempt such an attack. None of
this changes in the slightest now: if Netanyahu had retained his
coalition as before, or had gone for new elections as planned, he
would have been in the same position. In terms of Israeli internal
party politics it's a big change, but as far as Iran and the
Palestinians are concerned everything stays the same.

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi
<critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
> In all likelihood all that lies ahead is even more propaganda than
> before, as far as the Iran front is concerned.  But it's Israel's
> broadest coalition ever, hence presumably more power to him.  What are
> leftists to do other than protest, futile as it may be?
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Ran Greenstein <rangreen at sn.apc.org> wrote:
>> "Netanyahu is forming a war government". Right, but what exactly was
>> the government ruling the country until yesterday?
>>

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Ran Greenstein
Johannesburg, South Africa