Les élections israéliennes de 2006 : un « big bang » silencieux ?
Lev Grinberg
If the 2006 election campaign seems to have left voters cold
or indifferent, it is because they know very well that Israeli political parties
are not the only ones making the decisions that will influence their fate: The
Palestinians, neighboring countries, the United States, and even the European Union and the UN must be taken into account. A democratic election
limited to the community of citizens in its pre-1967 definition cannot settle
everything. It will never be any more than one aspect among others of the
political dynamics on which the fate of the populations living in the territories disputed by Israel and Palestine depends. The theory propounded here is
that democratic rules thus limited are incapable of producing a political space
that can contain the conflicts, and this due to the lack of consensus regarding
the borders of the state and the nation and the lack of an undisputed definition of those who are its “citizens with equal rights.” Yet these are essential
conditions for any legitimate democratic process by which social antagonism
can be mediated and resolved by assumed compromises. When the process of
opening a political space for collective demands is blocked, then violence
becomes an option.
• La question de la « démocratie israélienne »
• Partis et coalitions après 1967
• Les relations israélo-palestiniennes : ouverture et fermeture de l’espace
politique palestinien
• La dynamique électorale de 2006