Friday Top Ten: More Mishegas
1) Will lactose intolerant people be as indifferent to the milk cliff as nonsmokers are to increased tobacco taxes? 2) Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his Likud party are seeing its January 22 nd election popularity waning at the expense of his former aide Naftali Bennett and the rightist Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) party. The 40 year old son of American immigrants, Bennett has called for unconstrained settlement expansion while opposing the creation of a Palestinian state. Since Netanyahu will not have a majority, he will have to choose between a hard right wing coalition or the mish mash of center left parties to form a government. The stakes are high and could set the peace process back 20 years. Sadly, I see Netanyahu choosing his former aide, putting the Israeli government at odds with its patron in Washington. What is even more disappointing is the clear shift in the Israeli ...