Kadima bolts over draft dispute, shattering coalition after only 70 days

Yossi Verter writes that the short-lived Kadima-Likud coalition government made a mockery of Israeli democracy and left both Benjamin Netanyahu and Shaul Mofaz looking bad.

By Yossi Verter | 07:30 18.07.12 |

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The 70-day-old Likud-Kadima government that broke up on Tuesday was a prime example of political shoddiness at its worst.

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Kadima Bolts!
- By Marty Janner
- 18 Jul 2012
- 04:38PM
The question: Does Bibbi really want peace? I now know, it is questionable!!!
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Drama queen Mofaz
- By r
- 18 Jul 2012
- 11:03AM
What is your purpose; to destroy your party?
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If the Israeli PM can't keep the agreements reached with Kadima, then how can one expect him to stick with Palestinian peace accord.
- By AKeenReader
- 18 Jul 2012
- 10:43AM
It's time for him to be kicked out of office because of his inconsistent and dangerous approach to sensitive political decisions.
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  He can't, watch the Oslo tape where he brags about derailing Oslo.
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  - 18 Jul 2012
  - 04:55PM
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Mofaz
- By The Teacher/Instruct
- 18 Jul 2012
- 10:22AM
Mofaz,is all hot air with a bloated ego.
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"Netanyahu looks as though he has forged an eternal alliance withthe ultra-Orthodox,"
- By Johnboy
- 18 Jul 2012
- 09:42AM
LOOKS like it?!?!? Yeah, sure, and if it quacks and waddles then it LOOKS like a duck.....
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There was a coalition before Kadima "joined" and that has not changed
- By Binyamin Dissen
- 18 Jul 2012
- 09:27AM
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Netanyahu has an option
- By Peter
- 18 Jul 2012
- 08:38AM
Make a coalition with Abbas from Palestinian Authority. Its coming anyway. And they will be majority too.
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Tzipi I MISS you and your PROFESSIONALISM, I am SICKEN by the AMATEURISMthat came after you left. I SORRY 4 "smilling" when U left .
- By hot snow
- 18 Jul 2012
- 08:01AM
would U send US a bit of your CONSISTENCY in policies ? Tanx.
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