Shut out of power, Israel's Left looks to Obama to pursue its agenda

Israel's current Knesset has only one party - Meretz - that can be considered part of the Jewish Left. Plus it has the half of the Labor faction that refused to follow Ehud Barak into the Netanyahu-Lieberman government. In essence, that means that the Jewish Left has eight representatives in the current Knesset - a rather poor showing.But the Left never despairs of imposing its agenda on an