Ilene Prusher, Time: Is This the Man Who Could Beat Netanyahu and Become Israel’s Next PM?
Isaac Herzog has maintained a lead in opinion polls but winning the election is not enough to become prime minister
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chose to dissolve his government last November and call for new elections he didn’t expect a formidable challenge from the Labor party leader Isaac Herzog.
Herzog is the closest thing Israel has to a patrician politician. His father, Chaim Herzog, was an Israeli army general and the sixth president of Israel and his grandfather was the first chief rabbi of Ireland. And while the 54-year-old Isaac Herzog has served four times as a government minister since 2004, few have seen him as having the charisma some believe is necessary to be Israel’s prime minister.
Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- March 13, 2015
An Uneasy Israel Heads to the Ballot Box -- Isi Leibler, Jerusalem Post
Relax, Israel – if your ally is working with your enemy, it doesn’t make them friends -- Ilan Goldenberg and Elizabeth Rosenberg, Reuters
Iraqi, allied forces try to win back Tikrit, win over hearts and minds of residents -- Ben Wedeman, Laura Smith-Spark and Greg Botelho, CNN
Americans ‘Fighting ISIS’ Are Just Props -- Mat Wolf, Daily Beast
Will US Provide Military Help Against Boko Haram? -- Anne Look, VOA
China’s Emerging Interests in the Arctic -- Nong Hong, University of Nottingham
China is stealthily arming troops in South Sudan -- Peter Dörrie, War Is Boring
The Biggest Threat to Afghanistan Isn't the Taliban -- Matthew Gault, Real Clear Defense
Putin Ally Sees ‘Bloody, Short’ Russia Win If U.S. Arms Kiev -- Henry Meyer/Irina Reznik/Ilya Arkhipov, Bloomberg
Military analysis of what Russia really wants reveals nuclear dangers -- Commodore Philip Thicknesse, Reuters
Putin Disappears Like a Dictator -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Colombia Gambles on Peace With Its Rebels -- Mac Margolis, Bloomberg
Chavistas still waving the flag in the face of disaster, even as Venezuela’s economic crisis deepens -- Matthew Fischer, National Post
Now Argentina Can't Even Pay Bonds in Argentina -- Matt Levine, Bloomberg
Surprise: U.S. Economic Data Have Been the World's Most Disappointing -- Steve Matthews & A Catarina Saraiva, Bloomberg
1 comment:
Likud is behind in the polls right now, so if you're Israeli I wouldn't be getting on any busses or airplanes until after the election. The Shin Bet might take the rest of the week off and see if things start blowing up until the folks at home realize their mistake.
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