Posted on 12/03/2014 6:20:17 AM PST by goldstategop
None of this is a shock in the world of Israeli politics - the current coalition government is the 33rd to be created in the 66 years since the foundation of the state.
You do not need the powerful graphics computer of an election night TV programme to tell you that two years is around the average life of a coalition arrangement.
At least one poll has suggested that most Israelis are not convinced that it was really necessary to dissolve Parliament and the influential newspaper Haaretz has described the coming elections as superfluous.
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One unpredictable factor is the transience of some Israeli political parties - described here as "mood" or '"flavour of the month" parties. Unpredictable
The sharpest recent example is the centrist Kadima movement which was the leading faction in a government as recently as 2009 but has only two members in the current Knesset and could easily disappear altogether from the next. ...
It may well shrink dramatically in 2015 as another wild card party led by the former minister Moshe Kahlon prepares to enter the contest.
He is a former minister from Mr Netanyahu's Likud Party who made himself popular by cutting Israel's ruinous mobile phone prices when he opened up the cellular market in his time as minister of communications.
He is reportedly building a new party and may provide the shock of the new this time as Mr Lapid did the last time.
His presence helps to make things unpredictable as does a new technical measure - the threshold for a party to enter the Knesset has gone up from 2% to 3.25% making the pollsters' predictions even trickier than usual.
There is a lot to watch.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
The Knesset passed a bill today to dissolve itself and the next general election is scheduled for March 17, 2017.
Not a shock Israeli governments are as short-lived as are the flavor of the month new political parties that appear as quickly as they evaporate.
And Netanyahu can count on being re-elected.
Oops... meant 2015.
Your slip of 2017 is significant. By that month of that year BHO will be gone. You probably wish for this as much as I do.
I should have corrected it before I posted it.
Three predictions for March 17 next year:
1) Netanyahu will be re-elected.
2) Bayit Yehudi will be a major player in the next government.
3) The number of flavor the month parties should diminish because of the increased proportional representation threshold.
In sum, Israel’s political landscape still looks very fragmented. The two big parties, Likud and Labor have failed to win more than half of the seats between them since the 1980s and their vote share has remained stable ever since.
One day, and it could be today, all Israel is going to call out to God with all their might and find that God has a King just waiting to re-appear among them and put things aright.
I think we all cannot wait for that to happen. Obama out of office that is.
My wife and I pray daily for this wretched, vile man to be gone. What a blessing it would be if he were out of office early, by whatever means, before 2017.
How true.
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