It is a sad day for Israel and for anyone who hoped for peace and a solution to the Gaza tragedy. The right-wing parties will clearly form a coalition and set the pace for more war.
Avigdor Lieberman, is the kingmaker, his far-right party finished in third place.
Lieberman who promised to bomb Iran, attack Gaza with greater force, stop negotiations, once said ‘if it were up to me I would notify the Palestinian Authority that tomorrow at ten in the morning we would bomb all their places of business in Ramallah …’
It is all very disappointed when after all, we hoped, because indeed we had to hope into something, that the November U.S. election will bring about a change. For Obama, change is not easy. His first 100 days were marked by resistance to his stimulus package from Republican and democratic ranks. Four of his newly appointed advisories resigned, while more people are losing their jobs.
And it seems with a military oriented Israeli government; it won’t be easy to bring to the tables the main parties in the tragic saga of Gaza. His foreign policy might after all, resemble that of his predecessor. We doubt it. We doubt that anyone can ever be as Bush.
In all of this, it is the Palestinian people of Gaza, trapped by their own vote and doomed to a miserable existence, that will again suffer the most. Used by the Hamas as shields, used by the militant Arab countries as pawn in their anti-Americanism and anti-Israel war, used by the Israeli as targets and perceived as little less than rubbish by them.
