[Sarah Barracuda]

Wait, so Livni won, Netanyahu lost, I thought he was winning

[conservativeinferno]

The conservative vote split b/n Netanyahu and a political party even further right than Netanyahu’s.

[VRWCTexan]

It's way too soon to call this a loss for Netanyahu - i.e. Israeli politics, and their basis used for forming a ruling gov’t when their is no clear majority (as is the apparent case here) actually appears at this time to give Bebe a slight advantage to being able to up with a right wing ruling coalition