Caroline Glick on the election in Israel;
Here are a few of basic facts about how the vote has gone, and where Israel is likely to go in the days and weeks ahead.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not lose and his challenger, former IDF chief of general staff and Blue and White faction chief Benny Gantz did not win. Despite the fact that Blue and White won 33 seats in the 120-seat Knesset to Likud’s 31 seats, Gantz cannot form a government under any circumstances. He cannot build a majority coalition.
Wednesday Netanyahu assembled the heads of all the right wing and religious parties that form the basis for Likud-led governing coalitions. The factions unified into one right-wing bloc and agreed on principles for future coalition talks. They agreed to conduct coalition talks as a bloc, under Netanyahu’s leadership. By forming this 55-member bloc, Netanyahu created a situation where he is the only possible prime minister. Either the Blue and White Party — or one of its three factions — joins him, or Amir Peretz and Orly Levy bring the Labor party in, or Israel goes to new elections. Those are the only options.
// Those are the only options. //
Based on the assumption that no coalition with the Arab party is even conceivable.
They can vote, but that’s it.
Hard to slander such a system.
// TEL AVIV — If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign for re-election will be remembered for one thing, it will likely be the unabashed vilification of Israel’s Arab citizens, who represent a fifth of the country’s population.
He accused Arabs of stealing the inconclusive April vote. Five days before last week’s election, his official Facebook page said that Arabs “want to annihilate us all — women, children and men,” although the Likud Party later disowned the statement.
Yet, these efforts to suppress the Arab vote by a prime minister who is known as a political wizard appear to have backfired. /
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/how-netanyahu-s-campaign-against-israel-s-arab-citizens-backfired-n1056826
Good News for the planet, if Israel survives in its current form.
1Co_16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
2 John 1:9-11 KJV
(9) Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
(10) If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
(11) For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
If Israel is not suffered to survive, neither will any of us. A direct hit of an Israeli nuke on Moscow or St. Petersburg will set off the Russian arsenal. And that will be the end of civilization, if not all life on earth.
Even George Soros can’t hedge against a nuclear winter.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not lose”
Yes he did. It is impossible to take this idiot seriously after that lie. Bibi’s party got fewer seats than B&W therefore he lost. Liberman won’t play with him so he’s not staying in power. It’s over and it’s high time. Bibi deserves to lose for a number of reasons including bringing the religious crazies into government. Another is his marginalization of Arab Israelis.
It’s hard to take you seriously Unbecile, with once again your non-factual arguments borne out of reading comprehension issues.
He has no idea how the Israeli system works and doesn’t want to know. Best ignored.
Though there is little hope for him, I often find arguments put to him, persuasive for those for whom, there may yet be some small hope.
I understand it perfectly well. I also understand how numbers work.
Right now, Liberman is saying that he wants tripartite alliance that excludes the orthos. It’s difficult to see how Bibi stays in power this way.
Say what you want about Netanyahu, but l don’t think he has ever performed in blackface.
// Say what you want about Netanyahu, but l don’t think he has ever performed in blackface. //
No, barefaced is more his thing:
“YOU CAN lie to all of the people some of the time, and to some of the people all of the time, but you cannot lie to all of the people all of the time.”
This slightly altered quotation from Abraham Lincoln has yet to be absorbed by Binyamin Netanyahu. He thinks it doesn’t apply to him. Actually, that is the core of his entire political career.
This week, he was given a very instructive lesson. After being treated to dozens of cordial encounters between Netanyahu and Nicholas Sarkozy, Israeli TV viewers got a glimpse of reality. It came in the form of an exchange of views between the presidents of the US and of France.
Sarkozy: “I cannot stand him (Netanyahu). He is a liar!”
Obama: “YOU are fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day!”
That came after it was leaked that Angela Merkel, the German prime minister, told her cabinet that “every word that leaves Netanyahu’s mouth is a lie.”
Which makes it more or less unanimous. […]
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1321022639
Politicians lie all the time to all the people.
Israeli politics – of which I know nothing – aside, to me this is just another example of why proportional representation should be avoided at all costs.