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Steven Forth's avatar

I am glad that you mentioned the event in Toronto. I also found it hopeful. Is there, or should there be, some kind of process where voters can force an election, a sort of recall for the entire government. I am not sure this is a good thing to have, and the bar should be very high. It is worth considering though.

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Pieter Dorsman's avatar

Not sure such systems exist in most democracies, in the US/Canadian system there are recalls possible of individually elected officials, but the bar is high. Nethanyahu has sometimes in the past forced a crisis only to buy time (4-5 months) and hope for more favourable conditions. He does not have to do that now.

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JM's avatar

Fake news cnn had a chyron up calling the rescue operation a "hostage release".

Probably only after hamas was staring down the barrel of a lot of guns.......!

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Not so young anymore.'s avatar

Max Blumenthal is a sick person.

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