Posted on 03/24/2021 8:18:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It appeared to be a big win for the Likud Party and their long-time leader, Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli Prime Minister announced early that it appeared his coalition had won big based on the early results. But in a shift that mirrored the United States elections, his apparent big win got smaller and smaller until now, with 97% of the votes counted, it appears he fell short of securing a majority.
Most exit polls show his right-wing bloc will end up with 59 Knesset seats, two short of a majority. Meanwhile, the anti-Netanyahu bloc also fell short with 56 seats projected. That means Israel may attempt to form another unity government or may be headed to a fifth election in under three years. According to Jerusalem Post:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not be able to form a government for the seventh time in his three-decade political career, according to preliminary results from 97% of the regular polling stations reported by the Central Elections Committee. Netanyahu’s bloc of Likud, Shas, United Torah Judaism and the Religious Party was found to have won 59 seats along with Yamina, two short of a majority.
According to the preliminary results, Netanyahu’s Likud won 30 seats, Yesh Atid 18, Shas 9, Blue and White 8, United Torah Judaism, Yamina and Labor 7, New Hope, Yisrael Beytenu, the Religious Zionist Party 6 and Meretz 5. After initial indications that the Ra’am (United Arab List) Party had not crossed the 3.25% electoral threshold, current results give it five seats and the Joint List six.
Exit polls were mostly inconclusive throughout the dramatic post-election night. The three channels – 11, 12 and 13 – initially called a victory for Netanyahu’s Likud assuming Bennett, who immediately said he would do what is right for the country, joins the coalition.
Central Elections Committee head Orly Ades said preliminary results of the normal polling stations would be announced later in the day. Only after that, the Central Elections Committee will begin counting some 450,000 double envelopes, which are ballots from hospitals, nursing homes, emissaries, soldiers, prisoners and special polling stations for returnees at Ben-Gurion International Airport and for the sick and quarantined from COVID-19.
Though Netanyahu’s bloc has a slim lead, it seems more likely that his opposition can negotiate a majority with the remaining seats. They would need five compared to Netanyahu’s two, but there is no obvious path to bring those two necessary seats to Netanyahu’s table.
A fifth election may be on the horizon for Israel if neither side is able to woo enough seats to their camps. Whether due to Covid-19 concerns, political fatigue, or a combination of the two, this election saw a drop in participation for the normally hyper-involved citizens of the Middle Eastern state. The turnout of 67.2% was a drop of 4.3% since last March’s election in which the turnout was 71.5% and the lowest of the four elections of the past two years.
Israel continues to remain in political limbo at a time when threats from a resurgent Iran are inching closer to their lands. If Benjamin Netanyahu is removed from office, the wolves will be ready at the gate.
Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
Obama/Soros double team?
This is simply nonsense. The Israeli exit polls initially predicted 61 seats, but they backed off to 59 seats. That 1-2 seat margin is very, very typical of the exits versus the final results in Israel.
The same thing happened in the last 3 elections.
Their system is incredibly complex, and depends on parties making the threshold or not.
This conspiracy trash doesn’t help anyone.
Did they use Dominion voting machines ?
Amazing how some voters can be self-destructive.
Unexpected late night ballots found in a car trunk parked in Tel Aviv.
Everything that you need to know about this trash blog is here in this comment:
“Though Netanyahu’s bloc has a slim lead, it seems more likely that his opposition can negotiate a majority with the remaining seats. They would need five compared to Netanyahu’s two, but there is no obvious path to bring those two necessary seats to Netanyahu’s table.”
This demonstrates that the blogger simply doesn’t know what they are talking about. Neither Netanyahu or the opposition can form a majority without the Islamist parties. Both sides have coalition members that are adamantly opposed to having the Arab parties prop them up.
Israel votes by paper ballot. The ballots are tabulated manually.
Israel does not employ electronic voting due to fears that elections could be vulnerable to cyber threats from those trying to influence the results.
It’s going to be hard for the conspiracy trash crowd to explain how the paper ballots were rigged by the lizard people.
Seems like everytime I turn around, Israel is conducting yet another national election. Twenty years ago, it was Italy with the unending government changes. I’m rather surprised Netanyahu still even wants to be president. His party does not seem very loyal to him, even after all he’s done for their country. Winston Churchill went through a similar period after helping Britain through wartime.
Last minute voting serge? That sure sounds familiar! It has the odor of a Soros coup.
THAT’S great news. You see, what comes around goes around. Bibi was the FIRST to congratulate Biden. He gave no public support for Trump in his effort to show fraud.
Trump as I understand, dropped Bibi from his Twitter account.
In short, Bibi’s losing
is long over do.
Do you think our November election was legitimate?
There weren’t any mail-in voters. Were there? Everybody walked in and voted in the presence of the poll people, with sealed envelopes that they filled behind a partition.
RE: There weren’t any mail-in voters. Were there?
50% of Israel’s population have been vaccinated, so the Covid excuse for mail-in voting is moot.
I’m 50% vaccinated. Getting my second shot in April. I waited to make sure that others didn’t die or turn into mutant killer robots first.
I think some fraud did occur but it didn’t occur with magic rigging of Dominion machines.
The fraud that occurred involved the mail in ballots in States that jettisoned their signature matching and other safeguards.
That’s the difference between Florida and Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin and Georgia.
The data from the 14 Dominion Counties in Pennsylvania doesn’t support a “magic lizard people rigging” theory. Trump increased his vote share in many of those counties. The counties that had the biggest swings from 2016 DID NOT use Dominion machines in Pennsylvania.
Florida used Dominion machines in some counties as well. If swinging an election was as simple as flipping a switch in machines, the lizard people would have just rigged Florida rather than attempting to rig 4 other States. If Florida was able to be rigged, GA, PA, WI and AZ wouldn’t have mattered at all. Biden could have lost all 4 and still come out with 278 Electoral votes.
What was different about Florida and the other Swing States was stringent controls on the MAIL in ballots.
The moron class keeps looking in the wrong place for fraud.
Yeah, this is the problem with Parliamentary systems. The people break off into factions. For a long time when Israel was developing the Labor party ruled. As they got more technological and different waves of immigrants came and changing birthrates suddenly smaller parties grew as they pitted their own ‘ethnic’ and religious identities against each other. The Russian influx at the end of the cold war saw a rise in Russian party affiliated voters. The Sephardic Jews always felt they got the short shrift from the European Jews so they started their own party. The religious sects each have their own party, some only want small things like exemption from military or to control the marriage license office. Then there were splinter parties where “moderates” from 2 main parties joined together to form a new party. So it is changing again, now to where its very difficult to assemble a coalition.
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