Oh but good news though hope it holds it could be boomable
Praying for Netanyahu and for Israel.
Hoping Bibi is still PM please let us know once it is over, Eleutheria.
Make up a government from who? Joint List is the Arab parties, isn't it? Yisrael Beytenu is currently in opposition along with Labor. If those three join with Blue and White then they have 60 seats of the 61 needed. Assuming all remains as it currently looks.
Third election anyone?
Clever girl, that Netanyahu.
Israeli politics is one of the most cutthroat forms of government out there and even if you don’t care much about the middle East, it’s fascinating to watch as political gamesmenship.
What it appears Netanyahu did here was latch his party with the religious parties to strengthen his hand in coalition negotiations with the blue and white.
On his own, he couldn’t form a government. With blue/white, likud could form a very stable unity government but Netanyahu would be a plurality partner and likely forced out of the premiership, possibly even tossed from the party list in a rebellion.
The religious parties could have been shut out of the government entirely if blue/white led negotiations and so desired. In theory, if one religious party joined with blue white, likud could have been shut out of power, though this is a less likely scenario given party goals and personalities involved.
If blue/white calls Netanyahu’s bluff and refuses to negotiate from a position of weakness with an already established Bloc of parties, it probably loses its momentum as a political party. If it does negotiate and Netanyahu remains PM or shares the status of PM, it loses its momentum as a political party. It seems more likely today that Netanyahu lives for another day as PM, but his opposition has only been outsmarted, not defeated.
The Left fell to a historic low with only 11 seats. Its effectively been relegated to the fringe.
Israel has two big blocs: a Right and a Center. Israel looks set for a Right-Center government after the elections.
Only real question left is whether a national unity government will be with or without Lieberman who is the coalition kingmaker.
Expect both the Likud and Kachol Lavan to woo him.
The Lord God above looks out for Israel.
All of Israel's troubles can be traced back to it being founded as a secular state.
Better news than the USA MSM was predicting!
I’m intrigued by the name of the United Torah Judaism party. Were there originally five parties which decided to unite?
Really? So all the “Peak Bibi” hokum Drudge has been spewing for the last few days is nonsense?
Ok, but someone needs to define “right wing” as it applies to Israel politics.
The communists and socialists and the appeasers and galut suicide mentality types I am used to. All these have afflicted the “Jewish community” for a long time, alas. Like cancers within. You’d think they learn better but — not. What mystifies me is this Lieberman fellow. What’s his game ( and/ or mental affliction)?