Nikole > This is what a real 'stolen' election looks like and how people react to it. (2)
haaretz.com
>>Along with President Putin - but in contrast to almost everyone else - a large delegation of observers from Israel pronounced the elections in Ukraine legitimate.
Even though almost the entire world is outraged at the disorder and perhaps even the illegitimacy of the elections, a different message emerged from the Israeli delegation.
"The observers reached the conclusion that it can be said that the elections met the standards of democracy."
If the observers from Israeli found departures from the norm, they were seen only in western Ukraine, the area most closely linked with Europe, and where the opposition candidate, Yushchenko, won a clear victory. The international community is divided into two camps: Europe and the United States on one side, Russia and Israel on the other. According to this pattern, the voting by the former Ukrainians in Israel was also surprising: 80 percent of the 3,000 voters here, the highest number of any Western country, cast their ballots for Yanukovich, the candidate who is supported by Russia.<< |
