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I thought this editorial was pretty much on the mark as well. It discusses the whoredom of Shinui and Lapid now that they are out of power and would like to get back in. It’s interesting that they would put interests that contradict their ideology ahead of anything else. This is an op-ed by Ari Shavit, so read it as you would, say, an op-ed about Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef by Nehamia Strasler. Also, note that Tommy Lapid is an Ashkenazy Jew so the bigotry claim won’t fly here.
…in December 2004, Tommy Lapid made a mistake. Because of a silly quarrel over a trifling NIS 290 million, he quit Shinui’s dream government. Because of a momentary misreading of the political map, the leader of Shinui took his 14 dwarfs and stalked out of the coalition.
With disengagement looming around the corner and Netanyahu putting the free market party’s ideological platform into practice on a daily basis, there was no justification for such a move. The voters didn’t like it. His friends didn’t like it. Even Tommy himself didn’t like it. He tried to beat a hasty retreat. He began looking for a way to return to the fleshpots of government, to the source of power, to the warm caress of Arik Sharon.
That is the reason Tommy has been playing poker with Arik over the last two weeks. That is why he is going for broke, publicly threatening that if Arik doesn’t take him back into the government, he, Tommy, will kill the budget he believes in. He will block the disengagement he believes in. He will topple the government that is advancing the goals of Shinui more than those of any other party. He will not hesitate to drag Israel into political chaos or precipitate political and economic disaster. And all for the sole purpose of forcing Arik to rectify Shinui’s mistake. All for the sake of making Arik open the door that the party itself slammed shut.
This blackmail by Lapid is unforgivable. Neither Shas nor United Torah Judaism has ever acted so despicably. Neither Shas nor United Torah Judaism has ever endangered historic moves of such magnitude for such petty political reasons.
That is one scary looking prostitute.
cuz they’re not supermodels. They just work here. They’re not on Israeli TV. But that Lapid, what a hoe bag!
Nice image, ck. I’m surprised you didn’t place one of the Jewlicious supermodels in the supermodel post.
Im LOVING the Lapid/hooker photoshop pic
You guys crack me up – and i need to go revise and stop procastinating
Was justice minister.
Did anyone have any doubts? In the first week of the government, a miluimnik-support bill came up for vote that Shinui should have entusiastically supported based on it’s platform, but instead abstained basically killing it. Just exposes that a ‘Jewish’ secular-humanist-capitalist platform has no substance.
This guy is justice minister right? – well the last time i checked….HOW????????????????
Yeah see except when Shas permitted territorial compromise, they did so on the basis of Pikuach Nefesh. When in fact the reverse turned out to be true, when Oslo begat the intifada and suicide bombers, then they reversed their position as the whole pikuach nefesh thing wasn’t really working. I agree with you on every other point though. Lapid is a total whore. Even I am shocked at the extent of his whoredom. Shocked but not really surprised. I am glad that my initial assessment of him has proven to be true and I look forward to the day when he becomes, once again, the insignificant blip that he really is.