{"id":183551,"date":"2013-01-24T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/24\/this-is-all-fed-up-and-sh-2\/"},"modified":"2013-01-24T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T03:06:00","slug":"this-is-all-fed-up-and-sh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/24\/this-is-all-fed-up-and-sh-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This is All F%$#ed Up and Sh%$"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am referring, of course, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-21156621\">Israel&#8217;s election results<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Coalition talks have begun in Israel after near-complete general election results gave right-wing and centre-left blocs 60 seats each in parliament.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Shimon Peres is expected to ask Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attempt to form a new government.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">His Likud-Beitenu alliance lost a quarter of its seats in the Knesset but remains the largest grouping with 31.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">He has offered to work with the newly-formed Yesh Atid party, which shocked observers by coming second with 19.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">However, its leader, popular former TV presenter Yair Lapid, has demanded reform of a law under which ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students can defer their military service. Religious parties in the current governing coalition are strongly opposed to any changes.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr Lapid has also said he would only join a government that was committed to reviving the peace process with the Palestinians.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place again is labor, and Kadima, formerly the leading opposition party, is down to just two seats.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping that Yesh Atid gets into the coalition (does not look likely), because it has a strongly secular platform, and ending the draft exemption and subsidies to the Ultra-Orthodox would be a <b>very<\/b> good thing.<\/p>\n<p>As to figuring out what this all means, I&#8217;m not sure that anyone knows what it means.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, I cannot figure out how this will all sort out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am referring, of course, to Israel&#8217;s election results: Coalition talks have begun in Israel after near-complete general election results gave right-wing and centre-left blocs 60 seats each in parliament.President Shimon Peres is expected to ask Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attempt to form a new government.His Likud-Beitenu alliance lost a quarter of its seats &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1159,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-israel","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}