{"id":44006,"date":"2015-03-17T06:17:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T06:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=44006"},"modified":"2015-03-17T06:21:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T06:21:14","slug":"the-israeli-election-in-the-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=44006","title":{"rendered":"The Israeli election: in the balance"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — the election itself a one day affair, and may even be settled by the time you read this — but the impact lingers, and the complex balancing of forces in the region remains ]
\n.<\/p>\n

\"Calder\"<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

**<\/p>\n

Nothing is ever black-and-white, it seems to me — but there are moment of exceptional clarity, and with the Israeli election (as best I can tell from afar) still in the balance as I write this, two quotes from Herzog <\/strong>(upper panel, below) and Netanyahu<\/strong> (lower panel) strike me as encapsulating the koan <\/em>facing the Israeli people:<\/p>\n

\"SPEC<\/a><\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Still in the balance<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I was discussing the Middle East earlier in the day, an the issue of balance came up. Cheryl Rofer<\/strong> had said, “The big issue with KSA and Israel is balance of power” and I commented that if you throw Iran into the mix, the issue becomes one of a “balance of balances of power” — which could then be extended on out to include other interested parties. <\/p>\n

This brought me to the idea of Alexander Calder<\/strong> mobiles, and the sense that they offer a kinetic equivalent to the static formalism of my own HipBone Games<\/strong> — their precarious balances and homeostases representing by analogy the tensions and resolutions between stakeholders and \/ or ideas, ideologies, approaches, in a way that features both “equilibrium and its discontents”. Fascinating.<\/p>\n

To which Cheryl responded with gnomic accuracy:<\/p>\n

Multibody problems are hard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ain’t that the truth!<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n
  • NYT, Netanyahu Says Never to a State for Palestinians<\/a>\n
  • Fathom, We must divide the land: an interview with Isaac Herzog<\/a>\n
  • Mobile, Alexander Calder in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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