Posted on 03/17/2015 7:49:55 PM PDT by Star Traveler
The Arabs combined four parties, the Zionist Union combined two, and the Likud is really the combination of two ... :-) ...
Israeli politics is crazy ... LOL ...
Israel has official IDs that are verified by location for voting.
Threshold to enter Knesset was changed from two seats to four seatsso several Arab parties who hate each other ran together.
Number of Arab MKs has a hard upper limit and they’re about there. Contrary to some beliefs, demographics are working against them.
Arabs in Israel get to vote and elect members of parliment. Jews in arab countries get their heads cut off.
Yep, the Zionists are evil. That is an easy sell to sane people everywhere.
Take THAT, Bammie!
Can’t wait to see Obama’s angry scowl.
The united Arab list is a combination of three parties that had 11 seats among them. They really have nowhere to go. Besides Merrtz, a far left party, nobody wants to align with them and they don’t want to be part of anyone else’s coalition. The Arab parties simply are not a force in Israel’s government.
As I noted above, Arabs are free to vote for any party they wish, and no party has a platform that is anti-Arab (Lieberman does want to trade some Arab towns in Israel for Jewish towns in Judea and Samarka if there is a land swap in connection with formation of a Palestinian state, and he had proposed paying Arabs who want to emigrate from Israel). There is no reason besides racial politics for Israeli Arabs to vote for the Communist Islamic parties that united to form the combined Arab list.
The Justice from Israel’s Supreme Court who oversees elections, Jabran, is an Arab who I believe was a member of the Labor party, although I may be mistaken about his previous party affiliation before he became a justice.
Ya baby, he did indeed, ohhhh yaaa!!!
It will take two or three months of haggling to put together a government. Every one has their wish list.
At home or abroad, it pays to run against Obama and his policies.
Terrifying. Imagine 20 years from now.
It’s 14 now ... they took one away from Likud (they just dropped one seat)!
I think it’s up to 30-45 days ...
Bibi has options. (Assuming Yisrael Betenu and Jewish Home) he can go with Kulanu and religious parties. Or skip religious and go with Kulanu and Yesh Atid. Or, depending on final numbers, might get 61 without either Kulanu or Yesh Atid.
Rivlin has a process to follow too. No unity government.
I can track numbers and personalities and the official process, but I just don’t understand the weird deals that can be made!
The date is on the man’s t-shirt. October 2009. That was a big bullet the country dodged. Imagine having Zero presiding over the Olympics in a Presidential year. Would’ve been like Berlin in 1936.
So you don’t think the increase in votes of Arabs is going to endanger Israel. I hope not, but when that Arab coalition goes from 4 to 13 in one election cycles LOOKS bad for sure.
Infact Netanyahu warned about the Arabs coming out to vote in droves ...for a reason. It seems time is not on Israel’s side. I’d like to see Israel unilaterally move against Iran and the rest of its enemies ASAP....BUT DOES THE PRIME MINISTER HAVE THAT POWER?
The Arab coalition went from 11 to 13 or 14 in one cycle. In the current Knesset they have 11, not 4, seats.
I can’t even imagine how Israel can destroy Iran’s efforts to become a nuclear power, in light or Obama’s support for that effort. It is the biggest issue facing Israel, and I hope they have a good, executable, plan to address it.
Go Bibi! Good news is so hard to come by these days.
Thanks KC_Lion.
“Right-wing rule is in danger,” he said. “Arab voters are streaming in huge quantities to the polling stations.” - Netanyahu.
He said they were being bused to polling stations in droves by left-wing organizations in an effort that “distorts the true will of the Israelis in favor of the left, and grants excessive power to the radical Arab list,” referring to the new alliance of Arab parties.
This is what worries me. It sounds so much like what went on here with voter fraud.
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