A Party's A Party...
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by Joran
No matter the name.
Seriously guys... Why have half of the parties suddenly decided to change their names? It's not like they've changed their platforms: the IRP is still the IRP, even if they now call themselves the United Israeli Party.
Of course, some of these changes I could possibly live with, after all: there's no sense in calling your political party "The Provisional Government", now that all elements of the government have been legitimately elected. Likud is a much stronger name, and its representation in Israeli politics may possibly give one an insight as to what the party's about.
Then why didn't you just name the party the latter in the first place? And why wait until three days after the presidential election? Are there reasons for these confusing changes that we don't know about, or just decisions made that fresh names would bring about a new start?
(Somewhat on the extremely satirical side, somewhat an excuse to found a new paper. Interpret the actual message how you will.)
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It's not that strange, really. The agendas of most of these parties have been altered, and they have changed their name to better reflect it.
No sense in calling your party 'The Social Democrats' if you are a right-wing oriented party.
And congratulations on the newspaper, by the way. I'm your first subscriber. 🙂
I'd be willing to accept that as a reason, except no one in those parties seems to have released a formal statement saying exactly how their policies have changed...
That is because most parties are currently inactive, and hold only friends of the party leaders as members.
As such they are not that involved in the political landscape of eIsrael.
The Likud people are politically active. At least I HOPE they are, considering that they make up 1/5 of the government. But I am willing to retract the comment about the UIP, considering that they say that they will come out with their new statement in a few hours. But there better be actual substance, since Code-Y has tactfully neglected to mention anything about his party name change so far other than the unity that it is supposed to invoke.
Well, then you have nothing to worry about. They were apparently just putting it off for some reason.
And unfortunately, many if not most of the members of all of the political parties are either inactive or uncaring. It is more evident in the smaller parties, since the larger ones have enough active and caring members to offset the inactive ones, but in small parties numbering only a few members you can see that almost all of them are such.
I have announced my platform and ideas for the workers party, in a previous article. I am devoting my time to unifying the parties of Israel, without blending the parties or merging them together. I hope i have the support of the workers party to place me in the hot seat and lead in this manner, time will tell. I appreciate the fact that other parties are working to unify as well. Parties will always have dis-agreements, and the balance of power in congress will go up and down, but we should never become bitter and hasty in our communication with each other in my view, as that wont promote the best interests of our nation.
Truth be told, the entire reason to change was that we no longer have need of a provisional Gov't. All the areas have been set by will and votes of the people.
In this case, I've returned the party to its roots as it was founded back in Dec of 2007.
I mentioned that in the article Cyber: I just don't see why you didn't call your party "Likud" in the first place, when you knew it wasn't going to be the Provisional Government forever. And still no word from Code-Y about the UIP...