Everyone who knows an iota about politics knows that Israel
doesn't *really* have a left and right wings as they're defined
in most countries. However, Eric Raymond's lists of "Top Ten
Reasons I'm Not A (Left-)Liberal" and "Top Ten Reasons I'm
Not A Conservative" are still great conversation pieces anyway.
I don't agree with most of it, but as Charlie Stross says,
almost everyone finds at least one reason they agree with in
each category. Stross also answers the lists in a reasonable
and reasoned manner, which is something I'm not sure I could
do:
"But the major blooper in his analysis is this: he's buying into definitions
of conservativism and liberalism that look suspiciously like they were
designed specifically as placeholders for real ideologies".