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Dutch Court to Hold War Crimes Hearing Against Benny Gantz on Israel's Election Day
Jerusalem Post ^ | Sep 16, 2019 | Yonah Jeremy Bob

Posted on 09/16/2019 10:27:27 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

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Just WHO is this Gantz guy?! Apparently he has Obama and Clinton pollsters aiding his campaign. But it seems the E.U. Leftists hate both Bibi and Gantz equally. So what's the deal?!
1 posted on 09/16/2019 10:27:27 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

This is designed to HELP Gantz, by creating a foil in the Hague for Israelis to rail against.


2 posted on 09/16/2019 10:37:10 PM PDT by montag813
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Well Israel is never going to hand someone over (thank God) so why hold these things?


3 posted on 09/16/2019 10:58:40 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

[All prior attempts at using universal jurisdiction against Israeli officials - sometimes described as “lawfare” - have failed with European courts finding that they did not have jurisdiction for a variety of reasons, though some Israeli victories came only at the appeals level or from executive branch intervention.]


Persecuting Jews is something the Dutch are pretty good at. They lent a very generous hand to the Germans looking for Jews to kill:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Netherlands#The_Holocaust
[”In their preparations for the extermination of the Jews living in The Netherlands, the Germans could count on the assistance of the greater part of the Dutch administrative infrastructure. The occupiers had to employ only a relatively limited number of their own personnel; Dutch policemen rounded up the families to be sent to their deaths in Eastern Europe. Trains of the Dutch railways staffed by Dutch employees transported the Jews to camps in the Netherlands which were transit points to Auschwitz, Sobibor, and other death camps.” With respect to Dutch collaboration, Eichmann is quoted as saying “The transports run so smoothly that it is a pleasure to see.”[17]]


4 posted on 09/16/2019 11:05:03 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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The Center parties may win a plurality today but I suspect we’re headed for another political deadlock.

Polls in Israel close at 10:00 pm tonight and first exit polls should be out within an hour afterwards.

They will likely be inaccurate and it may take several hours for the election outcome to become clear.

If neither bloc wins a Knesset majority, we’re likely headed for a third general election later this year.

Only other possibility on the table is a national unity government.


5 posted on 09/16/2019 11:37:15 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Hi! Thank you for the update. How does the ‘Centrist’ party compare with American GOP and Dems? And what is a national unity govt?


6 posted on 09/16/2019 11:40:34 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Zhang Fei

Terrible to consider in light of this month being the 80th anniversary of the start of WWII.


7 posted on 09/16/2019 11:41:36 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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The Left in Israel is on the fringe and won’t win more than 10 seats. The Center is in the middle and is competitive with the secular and religious Right.

Main problem is given the weakness of the Zionist Left, a Center Left government is a political and mathematical impossibility because ant-Zionist Arab parties can’t be part of a coalition government.

The Center would have to bring on board religious parties to form a government and it would have to make certain concessions to them it doesn’t want to make like retreat on extending military conscription to haredi Jews.

What that leaves is a national unity government of the Center and the Right to push through such a measure. Good luck with it.

Neither Netanyahu nor Gantz have good options on the table but the balance of forces, given 63% of Israeli Jewish voters are Right-leaning, favors the former.

The largest city in the country, Jerusalem the capital will go Right as will the working class Sephardic strongholds of South Tel Aviv.

Expect the Center to do well in the upscale areas of Tel Aviv and Haifa.


8 posted on 09/16/2019 11:55:13 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Who do you prefer for top position? Netanyahu or Gantz?


9 posted on 09/17/2019 12:12:05 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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Netanyahu because he’s the lesser of all evils and he still has the best chance of forming the next government.

Real question is who the kingmaker will be: Avigdor Lieberman or Ayelet Shaked. Will it be a man or a woman? We’ll find out tonight.


10 posted on 09/17/2019 12:16:20 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Israel should decimate the EU after pushing the ingrates from their borders.


11 posted on 09/17/2019 12:54:22 AM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Fox Shadowbans People On Comments)
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Israel should decimate the EU after pushing the ingrates from their borders.


12 posted on 09/17/2019 12:54:22 AM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Fox Shadowbans People On Comments)
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Well Israel is never going to hand someone over (thank God) so why hold these things?

I agree. Besides, how many divisions does the court have?

13 posted on 09/17/2019 1:34:23 AM PDT by Mark17 (Once saved, always saved. I do not care if some do not like that. It will NEVER be my problem)
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The problem with these kind of legal processes is that it can make it impossible for anyone charged to travel through the EU; because a warrant can be served for their arrest in any of those countries.


14 posted on 09/17/2019 2:00:50 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: montag813

Makes him look tough on Palestinians while he is a leftist traitor and compromised colluder


15 posted on 09/17/2019 2:45:42 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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International criminal court of criminals, any of the genocidal maniacs over the years go through the court


16 posted on 09/17/2019 3:52:10 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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Polls in Israel close at 10:00 pm tonight

That is Israeli time. So that would be 3PM our time (Eastern DT). Correct?

17 posted on 09/17/2019 5:28:43 AM PDT by Blennos
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10:00 pm Israel is 3:00 pm Eastern.

But don’t expect real results very quickly. It’s a much different system.


18 posted on 09/17/2019 5:34:42 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The Euros are pacifist cowards who flaunt their law in effort to control the world.

Europe died and their gene pool is now human trash


19 posted on 09/17/2019 5:35:56 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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In six hours. There are four channels: 11, 10, 13 and 20 each with their own exit polls so don’t be surprised if there are differences.

Actual seat distribution will differ when the raw vote is counted and party lists will receive seats based on their share of the vote.

As in April and for decades past, no party is going to win a majority of the popular vote.

Final result is expected to be close and which side gets to form a government will be decided by whose preferred partners come out ahead tonight.


20 posted on 09/17/2019 6:14:04 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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