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Posted on 02/02/2013 9:38:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv
According to respected political analysts, this election was a crushing defeat for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose own party suffered a loss of 25% of its Knesset representation. Or it was a solid vote of confidence for Netanyahu, as he will remain prime minister of a coalition potentially stronger than before.
This election was a huge victory for secular Israel. And the incoming Knesset will have the most religious representation ever.
The country moved to the right. The country moved left. The center is now stronger. The extremes are stronger.
The security hawks, skeptical of the Palestinian Authority's "peace process" intentions, won the day. So did those demanding a return to the negotiating table.
This election was really about economic issues. Of course, as in every Israeli election, national security was the voters' primary concern. Clearly, the election was driven primarily by religious-secular divisions...
William F. Buckley once said, "I would rather be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand people on the faculty of Harvard University." It's quite possible that the Israeli electorate just said something similar: with YeshAtid, and they've taken a step toward citizen government.
YeshAtid represents a Buckleyesque shift by Israeli voters away from deference to political careerists and generals, replacing them with apparently capable regular civilians unsullied by past politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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Israeli Election Results: Yair Lapid Will Not Be the Kingmaker in Israel
Andrew Beale
http://www.policymic.com/articles/24403/israeli-election-results-yair-lapid-will-not-be-the-kingmaker-in-israel
Final Israel election results: Kadima’s in Knesset, Habayit Hayehudi gets 12 seats
United Arab List-Ta’al to shrink from five to four seats; right-wing to take 61 seats, center-left 59; parties that came closest to reaching the threshold were Otzma LeYisrael, which garnered 1.75% of the votes; Am Shalem with 1.2 percent, and Aleh Yarok with 1.11 percent.
By Jonathan Lis and Ilan Lior
http://www.haaretz.com/news/israeli-elections-2013/israeli-elections-news-features/final-israel-election-results-kadima-s-in-knesset-habayit-hayehudi-gets-12-seats.premium-1.496066
Israeli Election Results Increase Chances for Peace
by Joel Griffith 27 Jan 2013
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/01/25/Israeli-Election-Results-Increase-Chances-For-Peace-But-For-Reasons-You-Might-Not-Expect
As expected, results from Israel’s parliamentary elections last week will extend Benjamin Netanyahu’s tenure as prime minister. While the exact outcome differed somewhat from expectations, the prospects for peace have been bolstered with Netanyahu’s continued leadership.
Netanyahu claims election win despite losses
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/22/us-israel-election-idUSBRE90K0FP20130122
and the other Puke-K source, an anti-Israel diatribe and nonsequitur:
The hawks’ wings are clipped
Jan 23rd 2013, 15:43 by D.L.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/pomegranate/2013/01/israels-election
[snip] Hawkish and religious parties that have been generally loth to offer the sort of territorial and other compromises needed to revive the peace process got half the seats. But the election result shows that Israelis on the more malleable middle ground are still a force to be reckoned with. [/snip]
whoops, one more from the Puke-K:
Israel election result hands rising star Yair Lapid a pivotal role
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/23/israel-election-results-yair-lapid
Some VOA speculation:
Israeli Election Results Have Regional Fallout
http://www.voanews.com/content/israeli-election-results-have-regional-fallout/1589200.html
and the reality is:
Netanyahu Asked to Form New Israeli Government
http://www.voanews.com/content/netanyahu-asked-to-form-new-israeli-government/1596064.html
Deuteronomy 7
King James Version (KJV)
7:1 When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
2 And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
6 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
7 The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
15 And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
20 Moreover the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
22 And the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
23 But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
I believe about half of the incoming MKs will be new, and though Naftali Bennett and Dov Lipman (Yesh Atid) are American citizens, only Lipman (I think) was born in the USA.
They will both give up their American citizenship to serve in the Israeli government.
Lapid reminds me of another candidate with no political experience and a meaningless slogan who won in the US.
Israel can not afford it. Oh wait, the US couldn’t either.
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“William F. Buckley once said, “I would rather be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand people on the faculty of Harvard University.” It’s quite possible that the Israeli electorate just said something similar: with YeshAtid, and they’ve taken a step toward citizen government.”
Nice try, except that the careerists and generals are still in charge, including some new upstarts like Naftali Bennett, and the usual suspects like Bibi.
The “experts” must have a clear outcome, even if they must selectively ignore or distort the facts that don’t suit them. So what happened? Very simple. A stalemate with no clear outcome. Too bad for everybody. Good for everybody, too.
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