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Comment and Opinion

Avirama Golan – 09/02/2011

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“The roots of Labor’s decline, and that of the entire left, lie in its wanton unraveling of the threefold cord – economic equality, civic equality and peace. Granted, the torn strands of this cord still exist in various part of the left, but their connection has been severed.

Even the prevailing view among economic experts both in Israel and worldwide – that a stable welfare state with a strong public sector is the only power capable of battling the tycoons and generating growth that benefits everyone (see the articles by five Nobel Prize laureates in economics in the latest issue of Newsweek) – are not heard among the left here. Its response to neoliberal privatization has been to strengthen nongovernmental organizations. Equal rights and the battle against the occupation have been pushed to the margins.”

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