Monday, December 01, 2003

Israeli Politics

Israel's Meretz party has joined with Yossi Beilin's Shahar movement to form a new political party called Ya'ad. The new party seems largely dedicated to supporting the Geneva accords, and from here looks like it could in time challenge Labor as the main opposition party or play the same role as the Liberal Democrats in the UK and make Labor into the centrist option. The effects of all this on the peace process are difficult to predict.

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