Israel’s electoral system frequently features 10 or more political parties vying for seats. This is due to Israel’s proportional electoral system, where a party obtaining a percentage of the overall vote in […]
ISRAELI KNESSET ELECTIONS 2019- VOTES OF NO CONFIDENCE AND COALITION STABILITY
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
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
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
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
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, […]
