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| 'Parliamentary system needs replacing' |
| 2008-02-06 |
| "The parliamentary system has fulfilled its purpose, and Israel must now adopt a presidential system that will be better at decision-making," Prof. Yehezkel Dror, a member of the Winograd Committee, declared on Tuesday evening in his first public appearance since the Winograd Report's release last week. "We need, as a friend of mine called it, to move on to the 'Second Republic,'" said Dror, a world-renowned Israel Prize laureate in public policy who has been advising Israeli governments since the 1960s. Speaking at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Dror outlined what he believed were the state's structural problems, and some proposed solutions. One of the primary failures of Israeli strategic planning centered on the issue of kidnappings. "The Israeli response of enormous payments [for the kidnapped] created the problem of kidnappings as a strategic weapon against us," he said. "We have educated the other side to focus on kidnapping, and those who will die in captivity in the future will be paying this price." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Consider the circus going over right now in USA. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-02-06 21:11 |
| #3 He's right, Grom. By letting every tiny party have veto power over the actions of the government, the Israeli parliamentary system prevents vital actions from taking place. It causes major problems too. Consider the many arguments over IDF exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox, for example. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2008-02-06 19:02 |
| #2 I think Israel should go for it; why, us french are with our 5th republic in 200 years or so (and lemme see, two empires, one directorate, a couple parliamentary monarchies, a terrorist dictatorship, an occupation collaborationist governement, a reactionary/rightwing dictatorship, and probably a couple or more insurrectionary and/or provisional governement, JFM will be more savvy). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-02-06 11:08 |
| #1 The parliamentary system has fulfilled its purpose, and Israel must now adopt a presidential system that will be better at decision-making" Prof. Yehezkel Dror Shows that you can be born stupid, but to be a real idiot you've to study. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-02-06 03:34 |