Tuesday, May 12, 2015

: re: The Center-Right Moment


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From: barry levine 
Date: Tue, May 12, 2015 at 8:40 AM
Subject: re: The Center-Right Moment
To: "letters@nytimes.com"


To the Editor:
    Characteristically, David Brooks proceeds from bad history to false conclusions. In this case, Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party did win the recent election in Israel. But it did so by cannibalizing votes from  parties that were further to the right, while the Israeli electorate swung a bit to the Left. This speaks volumes about the dysfunction of Israeli multi-party politics. But it does not speak for a global rightward political swing.
Barry Haskell Levine



http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/opinion/david-brooks-the-center-right-moment.html?_r=0

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