On doing the deed
The dominating emotion of this most undecided of elections has been anguish. Normally reserved for the most troubling of love affairs, this anguish has seized my nights and conquered my days; the scenarios all laid out, the permutations thoroughly hypothesised. Never before have the clichés about choosing the lesser evil been proved so true. And, if anything, the dilemmas only increased as the campaign (if that is what we can call two and half weeks of low-brow, personality driven bickering) progressed.
It’s strange to look back now, but everything started with so much clarity. The choice was between Bibi and Tzipi. This was an election favouring the right, which meant those on the left had to be realists. Instead of fighting among ourselves for the few votes available, we had to shore up the one candidate who actually had a chance of preventing the return of Mr Netanyahu. Read more
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