Posted on 03/18/2015 1:11:03 PM PDT by pabianice
TEL AVIV— It was 10 p.m. and the rave beats were pumping at the Drive In Arena in north Tel Aviv. Recently built as the new home of the Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball club, on Tuesday it was the election night base camp of the center-left Zionist Union, led by Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog and Hatnua's Tzipi Livni. Young people pogoed to the music and waved Israeli flags. Parents held their children aloft as crane cameras swooped past. A movie screen behind the arena stage flashed with stylized portraits of Zionist Union leaders set amid animated fireworks.
But if you watched the people with the lanyards, the professionals, you could see they weren't smiling. "In about 15 minutes, everyone's gonna get real depressed," a journalist friend told me. He'd gotten the news: Herzog and Netanyahu were dead even in the vote count, a situation that, if it held, strongly favored Netanyahu, who would be able to assemble a governing coalition far more easily.
As the reality began to sink in, Labor Party activists tried to remain optimistic. "We should be proud that there are more minorities in the Knesset," said Jonathan, a young activist clad in a royal blue Labor Party t-shirt featuring a Shepard Fairey-style portrait of Herzog gazing thoughtfully into the distance. While assuring me—and himself—that "Nothing is a closed deal, we'll know the results tomorrow," he sounded like he was already approaching the acceptance stage. "The Israeli people deserve a leader who will make peace, who will go to an agreement [with the Palestinians], who will support social justice," he said. "Israel deserves a prime minister who cares about its people."
Obama is not the United States , maybe the United Nations
Leftistland (Liberaland) = Anti-Semite/Anti-Israel Land.
So, he’s prioritizing his country over the global elite? I wish I could have politicians like that.
Someone got off their meds...
One would think saving its people from nuclear annihilation would be one of the first concerns of the PM.
Nothing from New Republic is worth reading in full. Pardon me if I miss some of the details of the article. With so many good things to read, Matthew Duss just doesn’t make the cut. It seems he needs some reality in his life.
Yes. Rewarded by the Lord.
“We should be proud that there are more minorities in the Knesset,”
There’s something twisted in the leftist mind that says that “minorities”, whatever defines them as minority, are always virtuous and we need more of them.
Can they fathom the idea that if a minority agenda is evil/bad, we DON’T want more of it?
Picture of the Year!
Absolutely!
And since God looks out for Israel, that tells you which side the US and the UN is on.
Even the comments on this superliberal blog are crushing the poster.
Communists go after the young and stupid vote.
Barack Obama is not “the United States”.
Truer words have never been spoken.
The Left is clueless about Israel.
Its slipped past their radar that holding hands and singing “kumbaya” isn’t the currency of the Middle East.
You’re more likely to lose your head there. And Israelis quite reasonably, don’t want to lose theirs.
That’s why they voted to resoundingly re-elect Netanyahu.
And he doesn't like the UN, either.
The US, or Obama.
Obama does not deserve respect, and no one, not even the 3rd world hell-holes that run the UN, respect it.
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