http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/tzipi-livnis-gambit-and-the-prisoners-dilemma/ The Marketplace of Ideas Sat, 25 May 2013 07:40:45 +0300 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/tzipi-livnis-gambit-and-the-prisoners-dilemma/#comment-108808 Anonymous Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:42:58 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=94388#comment-108808 If there's <60% turnout and some <60% of those support this "apocalypse", then your calculation of "majority of Israelis" fails, does it not? Some call it a "false majority" governing a largely dispirited truer majority. In Canada, something of a Likud counterpart governs in a similar overall pattern, to great national detriment. Let Israelis show Canadians how to overcome this.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/tzipi-livnis-gambit-and-the-prisoners-dilemma/#comment-108806 Ben Yasmine Bernstein Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:14:36 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=94388#comment-108806 The only reason Tzippora wanted to create this bloc was she thought she could co-opt it and lead it. After all, wasn't she offered the 2nd slot on both Shelly and Yair's lists? If the Likud is this big bad bogeyman you proclaim, wouldn't it make sense for her to deflate her ego and accept the second spot on either list?

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/tzipi-livnis-gambit-and-the-prisoners-dilemma/#comment-108804 אבי קסנר Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:25:47 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=94388#comment-108804 I think it's wrong to lump those 3 parties together. I think the platforms disagree on more issues than they agree.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/tzipi-livnis-gambit-and-the-prisoners-dilemma/#comment-108802 David Goldberg Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:18:20 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=94388#comment-108802 your fantasyland coalition admittedly can't even come to terms before the election. if the party principals can't agree on direction and are pointing accusatory fingers at each other, how do you expect the public to have any confidence in this dysfunctional coalition working together and agreeing on any issue AFTER the election? As bad as you may suggest the Likud government might be, a disjointed government run by 3 egotists is not the solution by any means. you also fail to grasp the idea that the only way Likud can win the election is if they are voted in by the public. you seem to view the elections as if evil spirits are voting Likud and the public has no say in the matter unless they vote AGAINST Likud. if Likud wins, it will mean that a majority of Israelis do not agree with your apocalypse view of a Likud government and believe that Bibi can do a better job than the three headless horseman.

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