Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t been posting recently. It’s been three weeks, and in between wallowing in guilt for my lack of literary (?) output (wallowing in guilt is a particular hereditary skill of mine, passed down through untold generations of eastern European Jews who constantly worried that some personal vice […]
Archives for April 2006
Winners, losers, and the rest of us: thoughts on the election results
The voters have spoken, or at least mumbled. After an election campaign that was remarkably eventful in its own way (including a split in Israel’s ruling political party and Ariel Sharon’s apparently permanent incapacitation), unusually significant in the issues it presented for the electorate’s judgment, and yet amazingly soporific, the results are in. We don’t […]