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Civil Fights: It ought to be a no-brainer
That Likud and Kadima are still nearly tied in the polls is astounding when you consider their respective leaders' records. One, despite known flaws, has racked up several impressive successes in previous posts. The other has amassed an unbroken string of failures.
Analysis: Evelyn Gordon, JPost
STILL, WAS not Binyamin Netanyahu just as bad? Popular memory might say so.But popular memory is wrong. As prime minister in 1996-99, Netanyahu had two signal achievements.
First, he slashed the rampant deficits inherited from Yitzhak Rabin, laying the groundwork for rapid economic growth in subsequent years. Second, he reduced the devastating Palestinian terror he inherited by a whopping 70 percent: Fatalities dropped from 211 in 1993-96 to 63 in 1996-99. He also had significant achievements in other ministerial posts. As foreign minister, he was widely considered one of the most articulate spokesmen Israel ever had. And as finance minister, he crafted a recovery program that not only extricated the country from a deep recession, but gave it five straight years of 5 percent growth.
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