Reply #62: Then again, Kadima is ALSO essentially a right-wing party.

[Ken Burch]

It's made up of the old Ariel Sharon wing of Likud, combined with Shimon Peres' cynical, Ashkenazim-supremacist fan club from what used to be Labor(they left along with Peres because Labor had the temerity to democratically replace him with Amir Peretz, a man who committed the crime of not only being an actual social democ0rat but of also daring to have sought a major party leadership after having been born Mizrahi-in other words, in a country where the Ashkenazim see themselves as the natural elite, Peretz forgot "his place).

Kadima was the party of the failed Lebanon invasion(which didn't fail to slaughter thousands of innocent Lebanese civilians)and of Operation Cast Lead. On domestic issues, it backs Netanyahu's Thatcher-on-benzedrine privatization program and his destruction of the country's social welfare system. Kadima has no left-of-center policies on ANY major issues.

Seen in that light, we have to face the sickening reality that in the last Israeli election, over 80% of the voters backed right-wing parties. Shameful, and pointless.