Amoz Asa-El
Jerusalem Post, Dec. 20, 2024
“In Israel, the Center’s political will, though embattled, is intact and set to resurge.”
Like a pod of beached whales, the four democratic powers’ leaders committed political suicide one after the other, raising questions about the ailments, and longevity, of the free world.
This week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called a no-confidence vote in his own government, thus triggering a snap election in which he is expected to be trounced.
That was five months after US President Joe Biden imposed on the Democratic Party a successor who soon led it to decisive defeat. One month before that, French President Emmanuel Macron called a snap election that produced a parliament of extremists from both Right and Left that soon unseated the Fifth Republic’s shortest-serving prime minister, its fourth in one year. …SOURCE
The writer, a Hartman Institute fellow, is the author of the bestselling Mitzad Ha’ivelet Ha’yehudi (The Jewish March of Folly, Yediot Sefarim, 2019), a revisionist history of the Jewish people’s political leadership.