Posted on 10/29/2022 5:19:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Politics in the state of Israel has never been more complex. One coalition is held together by the slimmest of reeds: opposition to one man — Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s a collection of liberal, conservative, and Arab parties that was formed primarily to defeat Netanyahu last year with Yair Lapid as its leader.
Some oppose the two-time former prime minister for his alleged corruption. Others blanch at his policies in the Palestinian territories. But because the only real unifying factor for the opposition is hatred of Netanyahu, the governing coalition lasted only a few months.
Netanyahu’s Likud coalition is a mish-mash of ultra-conservative religious parties and conservatives. Polls show that neither Netanyahu nor Lapid will have a majority that will allow them to form a government, although Netanyahu has demonstrated skill in the past at constructing a coalition government.
This will be the fifth election in three years in Israel, and even the heartiest political junkie has to be feeling a little overwhelmed.
Mr. Netanyahu has campaigned against the last government, the first in Israel’s history to include an independent Arab party, saying it included members sympathetic to terrorists. The coalition fell apart in under a year as members clashed over policies related to West Bank settlements, Palestinians and questions of religion and state.
With the camps neck and neck, the election is likely to be decided over which side can best increase their voter turnout. Mr. Netanyahu has the advantage, political analysts say, because all four parties in his bloc are slated to comfortably win 3.25% of the vote—a threshold for having seats in Parliament. Votes for parties that get less than 3.25% are discarded.
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I wonder if Bibi’s Made A List, and Checked It Twice?
Don’t they have anybody else??? It’s like the Clintons and the Bushes.
Leaders grow stale, no matter who they are.
Works for me
Bibi is an IDF mate, a lot of the gov and civs are/were all soldiers or involved at some level. There is strong camaraderie among them.
Whistling past the graveyard. Most likely result is same deadlock. Any Bibi ‘win’ would be by a single vote.
Does Israel have a voter integrity problem, too? It would make the definitive election results one big question mark.
Iran better watch their 6.
If he gets in and hangs around until Dec ‘27, he could be the Cecil Underwood of International Politics.
Netanyahu and Trump back together.
Iran will then be attacked by Israel and the Saudi’s after an ok by Trump and their nuclear weapons sites will be destroyed.
Bibi is a complete tool. He was there very first world leader to race to congratulate Biden. The steal putsch was only 3 hours old when he called. No backbone at all. Just another Ivy globalist. And after all Trump did for him.
Obrador of Mexico showed way more backbone by waiting until the electoral college voted.
Bibi is trash.
I’m hoping for a Bibi win.
Hope he’s onto the infiltrators from Israel’s deep state. They operate just like the US swamp.
It was a nice try, but Soros and Zero have failed.
Israel’s been blessed to have Netanyahu... prayers he wins this one too.
I would rather have a better sign of their failure than Bibi getting back in. He’d make a great ambassador the UN. He made some great speeches there that were routinely ignored. As Prime Minister, however, he has bulldozed the homes of friends of mine, always with a leftist to do the dirty work. Unfortunately, there isn’t anybody else. I was thinking of voting for Ben Gvir as a middle finger up to the establishment. But the local Tzaddik and Kabbalist is for Shas. On the other hand, my Rebbe in his life never made any political endorsements. I have two days to make up my mind.
The fight will go on, no doubt.
But can he undo the Biden State Dept-engineered agreement Israel just made with Lebanon??
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