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BRTD
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Political Matrix E: -6.50, S: -6.67
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« on: November 21, 2005, 11:20:28 PM » |
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Summaries:
Likud - Sharon's old party, far right hardliners National Responsibility - Sharon's new "centrist" party, which will probably contain some ex-Likudniks with him and some possible crossovers from Labour including Peres, the former leader, in other words probably more likely to be a UAC-type party than a true centrist party like I said in the other thread Labour - Main leftist party, but turned more hawkish in recent years and entered coalition with Sharon. New leader is much less hawkish and broke with Sharon Shinui - Basically libertarians Shas - Probably best described as "Jewish-democratic", the equivalent of European Christian-democratic parties. National Union - nationalist lunatics even nuttier than Likud Yachad - new party, merger of several other parties, intended to be a more dovish leftist party with Labour's turn to the right initially Mafdal - opebo'd love these guys since their name actually literally means "Religious Party". Extreme nationalists and theocrats Agudat Israel - Extreme Orthodox Jews Degel HaTorah - Also extreme Orthodox Jews, used to be merged with AI but just split Hadash - commies Balad - Arab minority party Yisrael Ba'aliyah - Party of Jews of Russian orgin Ra'am - much more extreme Arab party. Contains Islamists
Anyway, while I'd be more inclined to vote Yachad, but I'd probably vote Labour in the next election to show support for Peretz, who I like a lot.
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