Black clouds loom over the clear skies of Israeli democracy this week. On the other hand, US democracy has demonstrated its strength as a system that provides equal opportunities to any candidate for the vice presidency. This is despicable. A real shame.
Democracy is in a state of turmoil.
On top of all that, the Knesset has already passed with a 61 majority vote the preliminary call for an early dissolution. In any viable democracy a prime minister who vows to safeguard his country's security, protect its holy sites and uphold its unity, and who then violates them, simply goes home. The prime minister violated his security promises and agreed to hand over the vital Jordan Valley to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. He wants to expel Jews from the Cave of the Patriarchs, a national monument like no other nation on earth has. THE HOLY shrines have suddenly disappeared from Barak's pledges.