Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Shany Mor http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Tue, 21 May 2013 21:58:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Israel’s election and the agenda-setting illusion http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israels-election-and-the-agenda-setting-illusion/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israels-election-and-the-agenda-setting-illusion/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2013 04:44:48 +0000 Shany Mor http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=98306 Last week’s general election in Israel has served to remind the world and, importantly, the Israelis themselves, that Israel is not a right-wing theocracy doomed to self-destruction. While Israel’s detractors and not a few of Israel’s beleaguered liberals fretted about the inevitable strengthening of the religious right, the voters actually reduced what was a 10-seat [...]

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