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Likud has repeatedly won the most seats in the Knesset in the last 4 elections. It’s a strange system in which a government can be formed that doesn’t even include the party who actually won the elections.
The Israeli people did not vote for this. They voted for Likud. But Bennett & Co. will have nothing to do with Likud for personal reasons and have engineered a way to clear the obstacles that block them from power, and conveniently put themselves in power because they can’t win at the polls. And what’s worse, he’s playing into the hands of the left’s & the corrupt legal fraternity’s years-long war on Netanyahu that bogged him down with a sham court case. The “anyone but Bibi” attitude enables the left into power, as Yamina will sit with a leftist government if it means unseating the dreaded Netanyahu. It’s such a blatant power-grab move that I’m amazed people fail to see it and genuinely think Bennett is doing this for the good of the country. If he cared about that as much as he says he does, he’d have joined Netanyahu and enabled the all right-wing government he wanted. The fact that he didn’t makes it clear he just wanted to be at the helm himself.
This government is united by only one thing: hatred of Netanyahu. That’s not how you build constructive leadership. Leading a country is not a “We Hate So-and-So” club. A government that can agree on nothing but despising a certain person cannot last long.

This article is a joke. Behind Bennett’s talk of “doing what’s best for Israel and preventing a fifth election” is his own desire for power, no different than Netanyahu’s shrewd moves to keep himself in power. Bennett & Sa’ar haven’t been able to defeat Likud at the polls, so this is their last chance.
Recall that there were not have even been four elections if Bennett, Sa’ar, & Liberman hadn’t refused to sit on Netanyahu’s coalitions in the first place. Yes, Bibi was unwise to push them aside and not deliver on his promises to them, and they have reason to be frustrated, but putting your own petty turf wars above the good of the country is not “doing what’s best for Israel.” Bennett could’ve had the all right-wing government he claimed to want, and avoided new elections, had he sat on Bibi’s coalition. The reason why he didn’t was because he wouldn’t have the opportunity for power & position thanks to Bibi’s snubbing. Unfair on Bibi’s part, yes, but it’s not all about Bennett either. In 2018 Bennett threatened to leave the coalition and bring down the government if he weren’t appointed Defense Minister after Liberman resigned. He threatened to force new elections if he didn’t get what he wanted. He backed down in the end, because it was patently obvious that all his grandstanding about how tough he’d be as DM was just a show (because any minister can be overruled by the PM), and pulling out of the government for such petty reasons would look, well, petty. (Which also makes his talk about avoiding elections pretty hollow, given that he was willing to force elections 3 years ago over a cabinet position).
His coalition is so fragile it relies on an Islamist party ideologically aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood to gain the majority. Is such a party in the government really “what’s best for Israel”? He was willing to side with far left Meretz over Netanyahu just because he didn’t get everything he wanted from Netanyahu? Really? It’s not about Israel, it’s about him.
Ultimately, he went from his party having 10% of the vote to the prime minister for 2 years. Tell me it’s not about him.

Not to mention that this government is so ideologically disparate that it’s likely it won’t last more than a few months before it falls apart and forces fifth elections anyway.

Awww, did some people do something?

1. Iran is full of Chinese advisors and technical experts (nuclear-related) who have likely been in contact with regime figures
2. It’s very likely the Iranian government and military is vaccinated against MERS (also a coronavirus) after the 2012 outbreak, as Iran was one of the harder-hit countries. Studies in mice have shown that if they’re vaccinated for SARS (another related coronavirus) and then exposed to the SARS virus, they can still die. So the vaccines may actually make you more susceptible (happens all the time with flu shots).

Israeli satire skit from several years ago
6:32 - Iranians in space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62MrPsxDjwc

"Esmail Qaani, a bespectacled, gray-haired 62-year-old man"

Soleimani was also a bespectacled, gray-haired 62-year-old man...

Trump’s got a thing for killing terrorists named Qasim

He’s got 3 daughters

That was Uday, but yeah

A piece of the World Trade Center was buried at Mazar-i-Sharif after we kicked the Taliban out and sent them running like scared rabbits.

Never Forget!

I was 12 on 9/11 and I’ll never forget. It’s probably the one event in my life I remember most vividly, and so it’s weird to know people who either weren’t alive or were too young to remember what happened that day. Makes me feel old. It’s essential they know the truth and not be swayed by the “Islam is a religion of peace” BS.

Yep. Absolutely.

Except we shouldn't have been caught off guard at all. 1993 WTC bombing, embassy bombings, USS Cole...the warning signs were there for almost a decade beforehand. Ahmad Shah Massoud (leader of the Northern Alliance) warned the world about the growing threat of terror in Afghanistan for years, and no one listened. After the Cole bombing he called his brother in London to ask about the US response and said "Haven't they realized yet?" He thought the US government was incredibly naïve not to have gotten the hint.
In April 2001 Massoud and Karzai spoke at the European Parliament and warned that al-Qaida was preparing an attack on the US larger than the embassy bombings. But again no one listened.
Had we sent in the Special Forces teams to the Northern Alliance before 9/11 when Massoud asked for help, they could've wiped out the Taliban then and there, 9/11 would never have happened, and Massoud would probably have been president of Afghanistan. But we did nothing, and AQ killed Massoud two days before 9/11.
US airstrikes and a couple hundred Afghans on horseback did overthrow the Taliban, but OBL fled to Pakistan and in the words of Charlie Wilson, we f---ed up the endgame. We didn't do a thing about Pakistan, and so the terrorists kept coming and coming over the border into Afghanistan in a constant game of whack-a-mole. Karzai said Obama deliberately ignored the terror havens in Pakistan (Massoud warned that if the US did not confront Pakistan, the problems of Afghanistan would become the problems of the world). Then we dumped wayyy too much money into Afghanistan (far more than a developing state could handle) including into the hands of shady warlords, and enabled corruption. The central government was dependent on the warlords to maintain order in the provinces, and had to pay them off to buy their loyalty lest they get a better deal from the Taliban. 30 years of war and poverty produced a highest bidder mentality where self-preservation and staying alive were the only things that mattered.
And then there's the CIA and opium. Today we have the opioid crisis and a massive heroin problem. 90% of the world's opium comes from Afghanistan (whereas pre-9/11 only ~30% did). Coincidence? Don't think so.

I was in 7th grade. Just came out of PE to English class when I heard some teachers talking about a plane hitting the WTC. They turned on the TV and there was some speculation that it might’ve been an accident. I was only 12, but looking at that footage I was thinking “This is no accident.” When the 2nd plane hit everyone knew it was no accident. My English teacher’s sister worked at the WTC but her alarm happened to not go off that day and she didn’t catch her train.

Came home early from school, watched the news for hours, then went outside later in the day. Air Force One flew over my back yard (we live near DC). It was one of the only planes in the sky that day.

I still can’t believe it was 18 years ago. It feels like it was yesterday. And just 7 years later we elected a guy named Barack Hussein as president, and he funded these same people in Syria. Way to go, America.

It's full of errors and obviously came from Google Translate. A better translation is: Сделать Америку великой снова

People are making apocalypse jokes like there's no tomorrow!

What was really on the Mayan calendar...

I don’t like this Indo-European theory either. I like the hypothesis that Burushaski is Dene-Caucasian (of which Athabaskan is a part), much better.

Here’s some random info on the language:

http://www.few.vu.nl/~dick/Summaries/Languages/Burushaski.pdf

Harappan is thought to be connected to Dravidian and Elamite too, but it’s also unproven.