Posted on 03/12/2015 1:03:58 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian
Netanyahu Slips in Polls Days Before Israeli Elections Labor Party leader Herzog benefits from perception that Prime Minister is not focused on economy
TEL AVIV—Less than a week before Israel’s general elections, the party of incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu has begun to fall behind an opponent who promises to restart talks with Palestinians and smooth the prime minister’s notoriously rocky relations with the White House.
Two polls on Wednesday put Isaac Herzog, leader of the dovish Labor Party, slightly ahead and suggest that support for Mr. Netanyahu and his Likud party among working-class Jews has eroded because of their widespread perception that he has focused on nuclear threats from Iran and extremist Muslims at the expense of economic problems.
“He’s talking about something that isn’t relevant—Iran and ISIS,’’ said Avi Biton, owner of a snack bar and a Likud voter in previous elections. “Today my kids don’t have the ability to settle down and buy a house. If they can’t do that, this country has no reason to exist.”
Polls by Israel Army Radio and the daily Haaretz released on Wednesday showed Mr. Herzog’s Zionist Union, a new, center-left alliance of the Labor Party with another political faction, winning 24 of the 120 seats in the Knesset, or parliament, to 21 for Likud party. A survey on Tuesday by Channel 2 television showed Zionist Union picking up 25 seats to Likud’s 21.
The polls show Mr. Netanyahu, who is seeking a fourth term as prime minister, lost support after his speech to Congress last week warning against the terms of a nuclear deal being negotiated between six world powers and Iran.[...] Some retired generals criticized Mr. Netanyahu for alienating Israel’s most important ally.
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They’d be nuts to not re-elect Bibi Netanyahu. If only we had such a strong leader! His speech last week was one of the best ever. He IS the leader of the free world.
President Netanyahu 2016 (of America)
“Today my kids don’t have the ability to settle down and buy a house. If they can’t do that, this country has no reason to exist.”
This ignorant *itch would have voted for Hitler.
Look this isn’t my topic really, but BALONEY.
They’re doing the same thing to Israel elections, they regularly do to American elections.
The media is all leftists. This is total baloney.
OK. Now “off” rant, and I will not post any more in Israel. But just baloney.
How much does Obama’s influence have to do with this?
Probably a fair amount. Valarie Jarret has it out for him.
I would suggest to the Israelis(British) that they keep Netanyahu(Churchill) in office until the Iranians(Nazis) are neutralized.
If Netanyahu loses Obama and Democrats will Brag ,big time and Israel will be one step closer to destruction
I wonder what cash and resources the USA has invested in this election.
Probably not much.
Netanyahu was trailing slightly soon after elections were announced, before the headlines in America. There’s Bibi fatigue as he’s been around a long time. He talks right and governs left, which makes some of his supporters unenthusiastic.
On the other hand, nobody can win the PM outright. There was going to have to be a lot of negotiations anyway. Bibi looks in a better position than his opponents even if he finishes second.
“I would suggest to the Israelis(British) that they keep Netanyahu(Churchill) in office until the Iranians(Nazis) are neutralized.”
At the moment of his triumph Churchill was thrown out of office. The public is fickle.
If it’s like American elections, then the press is setting up to count the vote fraud.
Exactly.
It looks like Israel is getting tired of Netanyahu. I would keep him, but I don’t vote there ... :-) ...
It's hard to pull off election fraud in Israel; see the article linked in post #2.
Leftism is infecting Israel too.
If Netanyahu loses, it will be Israel’s loss.
I'd vote for him. And there is supposed to be documentation that he was born in Guam, but his original birth certificate was lost when it capsized.
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