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Netanyahu Slips in Polls Days Before Israeli Elections
The Wall Street Journal ^ | March 11, 2015 | JOSHUA MITNICK

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: israel; knesset; netanyahu
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To: shove_it
Leftism is infecting Israel too.

Nothing new; the founders of the modern state of Israel (David Ben-Gurion, et al.) were socialists, and socialist parties ruled Israel from its founding in 1948 through the late 1970s, and intermittently since then.

21 posted on 03/12/2015 1:34:12 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Gosh; is the WSJ trying to hurt Natanyahu?


22 posted on 03/12/2015 1:34:24 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Is this a DNC poll?


23 posted on 03/12/2015 1:34:40 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: The Final Harvest
Gosh; is the WSJ trying to hurt Natanyahu?

The Israeli press has been reporting that Netanyahu is behind in the polls for days now. Google "Israeli elections."

24 posted on 03/12/2015 1:36:28 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: The Final Harvest

Not sure how a WSJ article could hurt Bibi...

There have been many polls over time. Here’s a guy that’s been tracking them:

http://knessetjeremy.com/


25 posted on 03/12/2015 1:37:03 PM PDT by hlmencken3 (I paid for an argument, but you're just contradicting!)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

No thanks to Obama operatives lurking around jerking the election...I’m sure!


26 posted on 03/12/2015 1:37:30 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Lurking Libertarian

But isn’t the law of momentum against Netanyahu? His opposition’s climb seems very recent, like now.

I hope Netanyahu wins, this other clown wants to give Israel away. He acts like the world will hate Jews less if they just give in.


27 posted on 03/12/2015 1:38:24 PM PDT by Kenny (,)
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To: WashingtonSource
Is this a DNC poll?

They quote two polls-- one by Ha'aretz (a center-left newspaper, sort of like Israel's New York Times) and the other by the Israeli Army's radio station (not leftist at all).

28 posted on 03/12/2015 1:38:45 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: molson209

God will not allow Israel to be destroyed. See Psalm 83 and Ezekiel 38-39.


29 posted on 03/12/2015 1:41:01 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: Lurking Libertarian
“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.”

What an idiot. Only looking at the 50m target while totally disregarding the 300m target.

30 posted on 03/12/2015 1:42:34 PM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: hlmencken3

Thanks


31 posted on 03/12/2015 1:43:08 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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To: thefactor
What an idiot. Only looking at the 50m target while totally disregarding the 300m target.

True. But I hear from my relatives in Israel (who are Netanyahu supporters) that housing costs have been spiraling out of control for years, and that voters are angry about that.

32 posted on 03/12/2015 1:45:00 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Throughout its history Israel has had 11 leftist Prime Ministers, 5 conservative Prime Ministers and 2 centrist Prime Ministers (Kadima Party).


33 posted on 03/12/2015 1:45:13 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus (PALIN/CRUZ: 2016)
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To: Beagle8U
This ignorant *itch would have voted for Hitler.

Ignorant, yes; but "bitch" is probably the wrong epithet-- "Avi" is a man's name.

34 posted on 03/12/2015 1:46:41 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: PapaNew

American money is paying for anti-Bibi demonstrations.


35 posted on 03/12/2015 1:48:56 PM PDT by zeebee
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To: shove_it
Leftism is infecting Israel too.

Israel, with its taxpayer-funded abortion for any reason and universal health care, has long been leftist.

36 posted on 03/12/2015 1:53:24 PM PDT by gdani (No sacred cows)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

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.

SOUND FAMILIAR. It SHOULD. It helped put that clown in Washington. If Netanyahu looses, his defeat has Obama’s fingreprints all over it.


37 posted on 03/12/2015 1:54:08 PM PDT by ZULU (Je Suis Charlie. . GET IT OBAMA, OR DON'T YOU??)
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To: Lurking Libertarian
“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.

Getting nuked isn't relevant. Ooooookay. Try building a house under fallout, Mr. Biton. See how that works out for you.

38 posted on 03/12/2015 1:57:40 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

If Israel votes into power an Obama proxy, Herzog, she will burn to the ground.


39 posted on 03/12/2015 2:09:38 PM PDT by Gator113 (Cruz, Lee, and Sessions speak for me.... most anyone else is just noise.)
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To: PapaNew
How much does Obama’s influence have to do with this?

You mean his influence with OUR money buying votes against Bibi?

Everything.
40 posted on 03/12/2015 2:12:10 PM PDT by Resettozero
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