My second piece on the Israeli blogosphere’s take on the elections is now up on the Guardian’s website. It starts like this:

“A friend – and occasional blogger – who lives in a prosperous town in central Israel phoned me from her car this morning to moan about the state of the country. ‘I’m depressed,’ she announced from the driver’s seat of her child-friendly SUV. ‘I’m driving around the main streets of my town, looking at the campaign posters, and they are all for far-right parties! What’s going on in this country?! What happened to the moderate left?’”

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I’m writing a series of articles for the Guardian’s newsblog about Israeli political bloggers and what they’re saying about the upcoming national elections. Each post will cover a different demographic / political orientation. The first one, If bloggers were representative of the mainstream, was published today. The article starts like this:

Assuming the polls are accurate – and they have been quite consistent – Israeli voters are poised to elect a rightwing government in next week’s elections. But if bloggers were representative of the mainstream, Israel’s next government would probably be a Jewish-Arab coalition of socialists, social democrats and environmentalists.

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