{"id":37,"date":"2007-01-25T11:29:33","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T08:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/?p=37"},"modified":"2007-01-25T11:29:39","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T08:29:39","slug":"going-nowhere-or-maybe-somewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/2007\/01\/25\/going-nowhere-or-maybe-somewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Nowhere or maybe somewhere&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like Israel is standing at the lowest point ever; Our president is going to be, after his hearing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/01\/25\/africa\/web.0125israel.php\">charged<\/a> with Rape, Illegal sexual encounters with workers, using the State&#8217;s money to buy presents and threatening a witness. Even after all the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/24\/world\/middleeast\/24cnd-israel.html?em&amp;ex=1169874000&amp;en=05151e504a53f938&amp;ei=5087%0A\"> Prime Minister urged Katsav<\/a> to resign, he stayed put. Katsav is determined to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2007\/01\/24\/ap\/world\/mainD8MRTCK01.shtml\">prove his innocence<\/a> and will do everything possible to clear his name.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, It seems that my government is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/6276071.stm\">going nowhere<\/a>. Our prime minister is going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/811869.html\">charged for misuse of power<\/a> in the Bid for the Leumi Bank,  our Military Chief, Dan Halutz, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lebaneselobby.org\/News__index\/news%202007\/01%2022%2007%20Halutzs%20full%20letter%20of%20resignation.html\">resigned <\/a>due to the situation of the army after the war (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3291420,00.html\">some scandals on the way<\/a>). And when everything is corrupt, what can you do?<\/p>\n<p>One story that didn&#8217;t get to the English translations was the alleged poisoning of Parliament Member Nissim Ze&#8217;ev (which is, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aad-online.org\/2004\/Englishsite\/Englinks\/23-12en\/aad10\/2.htm\">by the way<\/a>, for violence against women). Ze&#8217;ev <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrg.co.il\/online\/1\/ART1\/534\/851.html\">claimed to have felt bad<\/a> after drinking coffee made from hot water served in the Knesset. An investigation made <a href=\"http:\/\/news.walla.co.il\/?w=\/\/1046563\">determined<\/a> that the &#8220;poisoning&#8221; was from dirty dishes. <\/p>\n<p>This whole circus is problematic for me. I&#8217;m on the verge of finishing my LL.M and going after my Doctorate. I wanted to attend a LawSchool in the UK. the problem is that it will make me leave my country and stop acting. I know i need to work harder towards the next elections and start the media circus around me. I know that in order to succeed i need to get a little mud on my shoes, but i really want to write my doctorate.<\/p>\n<p>I can study in Israel, but it&#8217;s not the same. It&#8217;s like doing the doctorate off-hand, without any thought. I don&#8217;t know&#8230; We&#8217;ll see what goes on.<\/p>\n<p>The good thing to know is that in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrg.co.il\/online\/1\/ART1\/535\/261.html\">survey conducted yesterday<\/a>, &#8220;only&#8221; 41% of the public thought that Moshe Katsav was guilty; we still have faith in our lynch mobs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Moshe%20Katsav\" rel=\"tag\">Moshe Katsav<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Katsav\" rel=\"tag\">Katsav<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/President\" rel=\"tag\">President<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Israel\" rel=\"tag\">Israel<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Media\" rel=\"tag\">Media<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Politics\" rel=\"tag\">Politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like Israel is standing at the lowest point ever; Our president is going to be, after his hearing, charged with Rape, Illegal sexual encounters with workers, using the State&#8217;s money to buy presents and threatening a witness. Even after all the Prime Minister urged Katsav to resign, he stayed put. Katsav is determined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}