Netanyahu out?
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They are still counting the votes, but looks like Israel may soon have its first new prime minister in over ten years. His challenger, Benny Gantz, is a centrist and, like Bibi, served in the special forces, but if he manages to squeak out a victory, it would hopefully help get the peace progress back on track again.
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Netanyahu is a cancer
Netanyahu is a cancer
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Jay
Good riddance.
Good riddance.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: long live the dead
Fkin hope so
Fkin hope so
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Philzone Refugee
The beginning of the end for
The beginning of the end for the Geo-Political Douche Crew?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: That’s Nancy with the laughin’ face
Let’s see how fast the US
Let’s see how fast the US bombs Iran first. I don’t expect BIbi to concede anytime soon and certainly not if there’s war. Same goes for Donnie..
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: An organ grinder’s tune
that dude sucks.
that dude sucks.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Rasputin O'Leary
Don't count on it, he's one
Don't count on it, he's one resilient cock'a roach. Their elections look as fucked as ours in 2000 - 2004 - 2016, when getting the most votes means You Lose
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>>>>I don’t expect BIbi to
>>>>I don’t expect BIbi to concede anytime soon
>>>>Don't count on it, he's one resilient cock'a roach.
You all called it. Dude is hanging in there:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/25/israels-president-chooses-...
If you think the electoral college system in the US is convoluted, it ain't got nothing on the way they pick the PM in Israel.
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He's back.
He's back in.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Rasputin O'Leary
Oh fuck, well maybe he can
Oh fuck, well maybe he can stop Iran from supplying puty with drones n shit.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: GDTRFB
^yes and apparently with an
^yes and apparently with an even larger lead/coalition than he had last time which completely sucks.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: MarkD
He needs to be dead.
He needs to be dead.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: aiq
Good to look at this
Good to look at this situation when thinking about multi-party countries.
His party, Likud, gets 35% of the vote, 32 seats out of 120 in the Knesset, then forms a coalition with parties even further to the right to form a coalition.
https://www.euronews.com/2022/11/01/netanyahu-tipped-to-win-israeli-elec...
That dynamic makes for fucked up bedfellows. Way past strange.
Read Haaretz, Israeli newspaper to get a better picture. Most Israelis are somewhat liberal, support two state and very frustrated at the deadlock.
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Sorry for the redundancy, in
Sorry for the redundancy, in my past teacher life that would get the red pen and notes.
Also, my handwriting is going to hell as well.
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I don't disagree with Mark
I don't disagree with Mark
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: El Nino
Imagine you woke up after the
Imagine you woke up after the 2024 U.S. presidential election and found that Donald Trump had been re-elected and chose Rudy Giuliani for attorney general, Michael Flynn for defense secretary, Steve Bannon for commerce secretary, evangelical leader James Dobson for education secretary, Proud Boys former leader Enrique Tarrio for homeland security head and Marjorie Taylor Greene for the White House spokeswoman.
“Impossible,” you would say. Well, think again.
As I’ve noted before, Israeli political trends are often a harbinger of wider trends in Western democracies — Off Broadway to our Broadway. I hoped that the national unity government that came to power in Israel in June 2021 might also be a harbinger of more bipartisanship here. Alas, that government has now collapsed and is being replaced by the most far-far-right coalition in Israel’s history. Lord save us if this is a harbinger of what’s coming our way.
The coalition that Likud leader Bibi Netanyahu is riding back into power is the Israeli equivalent of the nightmare U.S. cabinet I imagined above. Only it is real — a rowdy alliance of ultra-Orthodox leaders and ultranationalist politicians, including some outright racist, anti-Arab Jewish extremists once deemed completely outside the norms and boundaries of Israeli politics. As it is virtually impossible for Netanyahu to build a majority coalition without the support of these extremists, some of them are almost certain to be cabinet ministers in the next Israeli government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/opinion/israel-netanyahu.html?unlocke...
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: An organ grinder’s tune
you know, don't they find his
you know, don't they find his...policies to be a bit hypocritical? because, you know..
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Hypocrisy died in the twin
Hypocrisy died in the twin towers on 9/11
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haha what?!
haha what?!