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ISRAELI KNESSET ELECTIONS 2019- VOTES OF NO CONFIDENCE AND COALITION STABILITY

By mirrorandscale on March 14, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Another quirk of parliamentary democracy, that many readers might not fully understand, is the vote-of-no-confidence. A vote-of-no-confidence is a legal means by which a governing coalition in a parliamentary democracy can be […]

ISRAELI KNESSET ELECTIONS 2019- THE BASICS

By mirrorandscale on March 12, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

This article will be a quick (but hopefully incisive?) summary of how Israeli elections work and how these elections influence the composition of the Israeli government. Israel is a unicameral parliamentary democracy […]

The Delusion of the One State Threat

By mirrorandscale on January 3, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

One of the more fashionable arguments wielded by those seeking a Two-State solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict is the One-State threat. It goes like this: if Israel does not conclude a peace […]

Onward To Chaos: Palestinians as a Disruptive Entity

By mirrorandscale on January 1, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

I believe that political entities can roughly be classed either as a disruption favoring entity or a status quo favoring entity. A sports metaphor is probably the best vehicle to explain this. […]

To Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Look Elsewhere

By mirrorandscale on January 1, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

In the modern world, conflict is not an equilibrium state. A country or people in constant military or violent political conflict soon find itself exhausted. That’s because conflict demands self-sacrifice and self-defeat, […]

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