Posted on 02/10/2009 12:11:09 PM PST by Victory111
Kadima wins elections, but will it form the next government? Kadima and its Chairwoman, Tzipi Livni, are the big winners of the 2009 general elections, according to a Rafi Smith exit poll commissioned by Ynet, with Likud finishing a disappointing 2nd.
Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu delivered at crunch time to become Israel's third-largest party, while Ehud Barak's Labor party sustained a harsh blow. Exit polls by Israel's major television channels showed similar results
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Also, military votes aren’t in the exit polls, and they tend to the right.
See post 71. Kadima is centrist, a breakaway from Likud under Sharon, Labor is Israel's old traditional left. And disappearing rapidly.
Thanks.
Israel has a Parliamentary system, and the winner will have to bring along a coalition to reach 61 votes.
This will likely be Netanyahu. The right wing block has increased in size tom 62-64. I believe the count is now Livni 28, Bibi 36.
Michael Medved is reporting that Israeli president Shimon Peres, will likely ask Netanyahu to form the next government, because he is obligated by law to pick Bibi because he is the one most likely to be able to form a government.
Another Coleman-Frankenclown moment.
Sadly, that knee-jerk response is all too typical of women conditioned to assert some semblance of masculinity.
Truthfully, I'd be fine with men such as Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Jay, and Webster in charge. Apparently, you might wish to think they were "foolish misogynists" too.
I don’t think he’s legally obligated, but that’s what he’s charged with making his decision on, after polling the heads of the various parties. The process will go on for awhile, but I think it looks very good for Netanyahu.
He was talking on the phone with his brother, Jonathan Medved, who lives in Israel for 19 years, and is a political reorter and activist.
Centerist. It is more conservative than the Labor Party (liberal) and Meretz (far left), but more liberal than Likud (conservative) and Yisrael Beiteinu (far right).
Israeli politics is split between numerous parties; no one party ever wins a majority, so every government is a coalition.
There is nothing knee jerk or typical about this woman, longtime FReeper and Conservative. With all due respect, You are nuts!
Maybe you should take this up with all the great conservative women here at FR, or with your wife.
Why do I question whether you have one?
This System of things is heading for a Final End...
Signed Sealed Delivered..
Jesus Christ.
here’s how it will play out... israel and iran will make peace and all will be cool until iran nukes them... a miracle will save israel and damascus will be destroyed... probably a misfire... all hell will break loose and everyone will be against the jews...
enter antichrist, tribulation, yada yada yada, here’s the real messiah.
teeman
And thanks, I turned Medved on. Good interview. Messy system.
His reports are very encouraging. He does state, however, that Israel, even with Bibi at the head, will be under tremendous pressure from the US ... BHO and Hillary, as well as most European leaders.
I’m hoping that Sarko will live up to his promises of total support for a strong Israel as a Jewish State with its capital in Jerusalem.
Now is the time for all of us, Christians and Jews alike, to pray for Israel.
How do Peres & Bibi get along, anyone know? Peres might be likely to go with a man at the top instead of a woman. (?)
"lord of this world, evil posessor." The sun is setting, but not for long.
It was your reply, not you, which I deemed knee-jerk and typical. Even if you gave it a lot of thought, there is no denying it is typical; whenever the subject comes up, every liberal and perhaps 2/3 of otherwise conservative women defensively bare their claws. Of course, that's how our modern society has conditioned—even requires—the "liberated" woman to react to such an idea.
Sure, you might be a "longtime FReeper and Conservative" but, as with Golda Meir, you're exceptional. Women, by and large, tend to prefer big government (due in no small part to men shirking their God-given roles and responsibilities but, I digress). There's no disputing the facts. The gender gap is not absolute but, it is absolutely real.
With all due respect, You are nuts!
What about Washington, et. al.... Were they also "nuts"?
Maybe you should take this up with all the great conservative women here at FR, or with your wife. Why do I question whether you have one?
Why, indeed. My one and only wife of these nearly 20 years is a beautiful, noble, staunchly conservative and—above all else—godly (Proverbs 31) woman, thank you very much. Obviously, I am richly blessed. Although she's always insisting she's the one who's blessed, I'm not buying it (and, unless I'm wrong, you're not, either ;O).
“defensively bare their claws”
When in a hole, stop digging.
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