Topic: Likud Party

Up for grabs, down for keeps

While the Likud primary race has been low profile, the Kadima contest is anything but. There are only four days left until the Likud leadership...

Veering towards the center

The prevalent assessment is that a general election in Israel will be held by October 2012. Despite the fact that no formal announcement has been...
Why a failed policy of appeasement prevails and why the Right keeps winning elections but never gets into power. I am absolutely astounded to find...

A light Yair away from elections?

Did Binyamin Netanyahu miscalculate by setting off an election fever, and has Yair Lapid jumped the gun and got his political career off on the...

Right-wing legislation stirs democracy debate in Israel

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Legislation promoted by right-wing lawmakers in Israel is raising concern that democratic values are under threat in a country that has long billed itself the only democracy in the Middle East.One bill could potentially paralyze dovish Israeli advocacy groups ...

Israel's Netanyahu moves up Likud primaries

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday his decision to bring forward to January the internal elections for his ruling right-wing Likud party."I want to hold the vote over the Likud leadership on January 31," he told members of his ...

Rush ballot in Israel's Likud linked to U.S. outlook

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Monday for a snap leadership vote in his Likud party, a contest he is expected to win and which could pave the way for an early national election in Israel.Some commentators said Netanyahu ...

A battle is raging for the soul of Israeli society

0 . On billboards, on buses and in the halls of parliament, a battle is raging over the nature of Israel, raising ever more urgent questions over ...
While diplomatically inconvenient for the western powers, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' attempt to get the UN to unilaterally...

Hamas can't set terms of truce: Israel's Lieberman

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel must not let the Gaza Strip's Islamist Hamas rulers dictate terms of a ceasefire after a recent escalation of fighting, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Monday.Calm returned to Gaza Strip and southern Israel overnight after four ...