Israeli Elections today.

[1sickbastard]

The exit polls said Likud 28 seats and Zionist Union 27, which, if it holds, is a surprisingly strong showing for Likud. Still need 61 seats total to form a government and that's just polling, not actual results. The third strongest showing is the Arab coalition of parties, which is no friend of Bibi's.

Yah, I've been checking in.
It is one notable weakness for parliamentary style democracies that, in trying to form a coalition gov't, a nominally weak party will be able to exercise influence/power disproportionate to it's electoral strength.
In this case, however, I have a tough time seeing the Likud wanting to play ball with any of the Arab parties.

 

[Busybody]

Except I was just able to demonstrate the contrary, using your own posts.

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that's YOUR personal opinion

oh wait, You are a PUSSY COWARD and Im on IGGY

 

[Busybody]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CAVIemyUMAAmflf.png

 

[Busybody]

He should call Obama first and the Dem leaders second to thank them for saving his premiership with their epic hissy fit over his speech before Congress.

 

[miles]

Bibi wins. The Fraud and the MSM go crazy.

Buh-bye two state solution.

 

[miles]

He should call Obama first and the Dem leaders second to thank them for saving his premiership with their epic hissy fit over his speech before Congress.

The Dems will blame Bibi's victory on the GOP for allowing him to speak before Congress.

Guaranteed.

 

[contrifan32]

Barry looses ... again. We still have a tough guy in the bad neighborhood to keep the bad guys in check.

 

[miles]

Barry looses ... again. We still have a tough guy in the bad neighborhood to keep the bad guys in check.

Barry is a loser.

This is really going to piss him off.

 

[RobDownSouth]

The Dems will blame Bibi's victory on the GOP for allowing him to speak before Congress.

Guaranteed.

No they won't.

Guaranteed.

 

[Beco]

Barry is a loser.

This is really going to piss him off.

Does Obama ever get embarrassed by himself? Some of us are starting to wonder.

 

[miles]

Does Obama ever get embarrassed by himself? Some of us are starting to wonder.

Narcissists are above feeling shame.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Netanyahu won because he spent the last few days, even election day, engaged in racist fear-mongering to boost right-wing turnout, claiming that his government was “in danger” because “Arab voters [Palestinian citizens of Israel, who form approximately 20 percent of Israel’s citizenry] are coming out in droves to the polls.” Netanyahu’s alarmism over Palestinian citizens of Israel exercising their right to vote reflects an increasingly anti-democratic sentiment within Israel’s body politic.

He took a page directly from the GOP playbook. Frighten your base that the "other" (meaning Arab voters in this case) may actually gain power in the government and drive them to the polls like frightened cattle to the cliff's edge.

 

[Busybody]

Netanyahu won because he spent the last few days, even election day, engaged in racist fear-mongering to boost right-wing turnout, claiming that his government was “in danger” because “Arab voters [Palestinian citizens of Israel, who form approximately 20 percent of Israel’s citizenry] are coming out in droves to the polls.” Netanyahu’s alarmism over Palestinian citizens of Israel exercising their right to vote reflects an increasingly anti-democratic sentiment within Israel’s body politic.

He took a page directly from the GOP playbook. Frighten your base that the "other" (meaning Arab voters in this case) may actually gain power in the government and drive them to the polls like frightened cattle to the cliff's edge.

Yet Israel is an APARTHEID STATE

 

[miles]

UD - go spew your verbal racist diarrhea in your buddy Throb's threads.

 

[miles]

Yet Israel is an APARTHEID STATE

He's such an ignorant fuck.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

You morons can deny it all you want. But deep down in those cold black little hearts of yours you know that Netanyahu did exactly what I posted. He engaged in racist fearmongering rhetoric against "the Arabs" in Israel and pandered to Israel’s more extreme nationalist and pro-settlement constituencies in a gambit to retain power.

I'm sure it made BusyDummy proud. Hearing Netanyahu reveal yesterday the real reason for building the settlement in Har Homa (an illegal Israeli settlement that sits within the expanded municipal boundaries of an East Jerusalem whose annexation is recognized by neither the international community nor the United States).

At the time it was built, he claimed, it was the result of coalition pressures within his government after he signed an agreement to redeploy Israeli forces from part of Hebron. He told the Clinton administration, “I am telling you I don’t have a choice on Har Homa, If I don’t do it, I will be in real trouble.” The Clinton administration, not wishing to see Netanyahu’s government collapse, bought the story, even going so far as to veto a UN Security Council resolution condemning the settlement.

But yesterday Netanyahu proclaimed, “It was a way of stopping Bethlehem from moving toward Jerusalem. Exactly because it stops the continuation of the Palestinians, I saw the potential was really great.”

Just another example of Netanyahu, who declared in 2001 that “America is a thing you can move very easily”, playing the United States for a fool. Our supposed ally in the Middle East.

 

[Wrong Element]

Could be a Pyrrhic victory. The American people are not going to continue to throw their unquestioning support behind a country that seems to be flirting with adopting apartheid as an official policy.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Trying to figure out how this is a "loss" for Obama. Since when did he sweat anything?

This is about Israel, not America.

Bibi's gonna have to govern with a fractured Israel. Like a severely fractured Israel.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Could be a Pyrrhic victory. The American people are not going to continue to throw their unquestioning support behind a country that seems to be flirting with adopting apartheid as an official policy.

Some will, divided loyalties and all that.

Where Netanyahu leads, the GOP will follow. Look for GOP politicians to become more vocal in opposition to the two state solution that has had bipartisan support here for the past 25 years.

There are many reasons the Republican Party as a whole has become so epileptically pro-Israel in recent years: their ardor for Netanyahu, the power of the Israel lobby, the influence of the Christian Zionist movement, and more. But another one of those reasons is Sheldon Adelson. Republican Presidential hopefuls started making pilgrimages out to Adelson's Las Vegas base of operations over a year ago to fill his ears with pretty music.

So look for Republican candidates start announcing that they’re against the two-state solution. Some will be coy about it (Bush, probably). Others—Ted Cruz, and Scott Walker, who have already been acting like foreign policy is just a little make-believe game anyway, an arena that exists merely for the purpose of bashing Barack Obama and pandering to the base—will likely be less coy about it.

 

[contrifan32]

He took a page directly from the GOP playbook. Frighten your base that the "other" (meaning Arab voters in this case) may actually gain power in the government and drive them to the polls like frightened cattle to the cliff's edge.

You mean sort of like Ted Cruz did the other day scaring that poor little child in NH by saying "the world is on fire?"

 

[Wrong Element]

I did notice that the guy who claimed to speak for every Jew in the entire world ended up winning about 30 seats in a 120-seat Parliament.

Oh well. Pope Francis is the world spokesman for my religion, and I don't always do what he says either.

 

[Busybody]

Netanyahu won because he spent the last few days, even election day, engaged in racist fear-mongering to boost right-wing turnout, claiming that his government was “in danger” because “Arab voters [Palestinian citizens of Israel, who form approximately 20 percent of Israel’s citizenry] are coming out in droves to the polls.” Netanyahu’s alarmism over Palestinian citizens of Israel exercising their right to vote reflects an increasingly anti-democratic sentiment within Israel’s body politic.

He took a page directly from the GOP playbook. Frighten your base that the "other" (meaning Arab voters in this case) may actually gain power in the government and drive them to the polls like frightened cattle to the cliff's edge.

You mean the DUMOH playbook....remember Biden talking about CHAINS etc and so many other examples

 

[RobDownSouth]

I did notice that the guy who claimed to speak for every Jew in the entire world ended up winning about 30 seats in a 120-seat Parliament.

Exactly. A pretty weak showing for a man who would be "the King of the Jews".

 

[Busybody]

ah, the smell of BUTT HURT in the AM

 

[miles]

I liked the Dems' disgusting commercial of the GOP pushing a wheelchair bound senior over a cliff.