Only fools would count Netanyahu out.
FAKE NEWS
So is his challengers going to surrender to the europeans and palisimians?
Weakened Netanyahu’s offer for unity government rebuffed by rival Gantz
The Israeli electorate, like most, tends to drift leftward in times of relative security and prosperity, as people begin to forget to what they owe that security and prosperity. That being said, it’s not clear to me that Netanyahu has “lost” any more so than the last election there.
it must be noted that Haaretz is a consistently far leftwing mouthpiece.... and no doubt it would support a leftist Quisling style government (that would sell out or just give away the land). It may be no coincidence that it is sold with the New York Times, another far leftist and often seditious type of propaganda piece
I will await the real results
The opening created is in favor of Hamas & Hezbollah, unfortunately.
Haaretz is the NY Slimes of Israel, only worse.
“Netanyahu lost” is just their opinion, which they are pushing on everyone else.
That he didn’t outright win is clear...but I have a sneaking suspicion (and good vibes) that he will continue to be Prime Minister.
I’m in Israel tight now, and they’re as confused as we are. On the one hand, people say that a lot of the strength of his opposition came from the involvement of the ultra-orthodox, who are always a destabilizing factor, especially in a parliamentary system such as israel’s.
Other people,say that he’s been in office for 13 years and they jury’s want a change. So we shall see, i guess.
Whether this is flat-out #fakenews, or simply a reflection of uncertainty, it does accurately point to the crazy political system and just how Israeli elections operate. It really is a maze of a system. For all of our own system’s issues, at least we usually know who our next CIC is within 24 hours of an election.
Netanyahu currently has no clear path to 61 seats. If he adds Jewish Home (right wing on the Palestinian issue but militantly secular) to his coalition, he loses the religious parties who refuse to sit with Jewish Home.
On the other hand, Blue & White has absolutely no path to a majority-- the total for the Jewish center and left parties is only about 45 seats. The Arab parties (who won about 12 seats) will try to block Netanyahu from forming a government, but will never sit in a government with any Jewish parties, and most of Blue & White would absolutely refuse to sit with the Arabs.
There are only three alternatives now-- (1) a coalition between Blue & White and Likud, leaving out the religious parties (Blue & White has so far refused this, but could change their minds); (2) Netanyahu keeps his current coalition with the religious parties and ekes out a bare 61-seat majority by pulling in some individual members of Blue & White by offering them plum cabinet seats; and (3) a third election (unlikely, since 2 elections in a row have produced only deadlocks).
Bibi got Borked, Israel will pay a high price for it.