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The hour of the dark horse [Avigdor Lieberman's Israel Beiteinu]
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| Last Edited | 411 Name Removed Feb 24, 2006 10:16am |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Media | Newspaper - Jerusalem Post |
| News Date | Friday, February 24, 2006 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A month to go and it seems that the two main battles of the campaign are all but decided. Amir Peretz's bid for legitimacy as a national leader has failed and no one, not even in his own party, is considering him as a potential prime minister.
The other battle, between Likud and Kadima, has turned into a one-sided romp to victory for Kadima and a fight for the Likud's survival as a major party. There is no trend in the polls suggesting anything else; even the fact that Kadima has lost four or five Knesset seats over the last month according to most polls doesn't change anything. Those seats haven't gone to Labor or Likud. The only remaining battle is over the composition of the coalition - which parties will join the Olmert government - and here the game is still wide open.
This is where Avigdor Lieberman's Israel Beiteinu comes in. Lieberman could well turn out to be the dark horse in this race. His party has kept a relatively low profile until now, working mainly in the Russian community. Now they are gradually stepping up their campaign among the general population. The party's strategists and Lieberman himself realize that many, especially in the media, are still stuck on the image of Lieberman as a threatening, foreign tyrant. |
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