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.
Most exit polls show his right-wing bloc will end up with 59 Knesset seats, two short of a majority... 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... 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.
Not to stray too off topic but you don’t need to have a ‘magic lizard people switch’ to use the machines to rig an election. Any number of exploits likely exist, including (just throwing random ideas I don’t know all the allegations) not auditing ballots thus able to scan the same ballot multiple times, jump drives that insert votes, exposed databases that an admin can add to the tally, insecure passwords, improper training, hackers etc. It doesn’t have to be just ‘vote flipping’ but many ways the machines could be misused. And as you said, just bringing in stacks and stacks of ballots to count without much control over their provenance.
I think I will wait until the second round of manufactured flu comes around next year and the vaccination you received this year either helps or hinders. Thalidomide comes to mind. Since I got out of the service in the 60's I have trusted my auto-immune system and it has done a great job. I will continue to trust it until the day I die.
The following parties are represented following the March 2020 election:
By “surge” do they mean that truckloads of ballots were sneaked into the counting rooms in the dead of night, like in the U.S.?
The Religious Zionist Party “defies expectations” according to some headlines, and from the look of ‘em, they aren’t going to partner with any two-state losers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Zionist_Party
Netanyahu won in a landslide on election day but funny business days after election day overturned the results? Are they as corrupt as the USA?
From what I understadn, two smaller right-wing parties got seats, but they don’t wish to form a coalition with Netanyahu.
And I certainly did not know that Stacy Abrams was an Israeli citizen. /sarc
That interesting. Netanyahu, with Trump’s help, just got several peace deals with Arab Muslim countries, so unless the “Islamist” parties are pro-Iranian, pro-Palestinkian or hardcore anti-Semitic, I don’t see why he couldn’t negotiate something with them.
If that’s the case, why is Dominion suing people for BILLIONS instead of millions?
BILLIONS sounds more like a form of lawfare intimidation than seeking recompense for false accusations or defamation.
(Note: Prove Dominion suffered libel or slander, and I’m with them. Until then, I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw one of their machines.)
Bibi was not the first to congratulate Biden. Most of the world leaders did first: Trudeau, Johnson, Macron, Merkel, etc. etc.
Also, please provide the list of leaders of foreign governments who gave “public support for Trump in his effort to show fraud.” I don’t think there is a single foreign leader or government stupid enough to do such a thing.
You’re right, none. Bibi was a fair weather friend. Sorry, but I retract nothing. He abandoned Trump, so screw him.
“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.”
That sounds familiar. It is a pretty sure sign of rigged elections.
“Obama/Soros double team?”
I can PROMISE you they were involved, just as they were in the past. Israel has to figure this out and deal with it.
But Covid. Cooooooovid. Cooooovid. Woooooo! If you don’t wear a mask you will die and kill everyone around you. If you don’t take your shots, you will die and kill your grandma’s fifth cousin. Woooooooooo! (and you might turn into a mutant killer robot, if you do, but it’s a slim chance).
I’ve stopped caring. All I hear is ‘blahblahblahblahblahblah’ Netanyahu forms a coalition somehow or other, and Bennet is in the government. And that last item is all I really want or can hope for. A check on Bibi.
They misspelled “fraud”.
Nice non-answer answer.
Bibi's number one priority is supporting whatever helps Bibi stay in power and throwing everyone else under the bus, Trump learned that the hard way last November.
Likud would win easily without him as the head of the ticket, the reason Israel keeps having endless elections and their governments keep collapsing is nobody wants to work with, or be part of a government that Bibi is "in charge" of, ESPECIALLY when he's under indictment.
I don't think Likud would replace him with anyone "more conservative", and possibly we'd end up with someone LESS conservative, but by the same token, I don't think there would have been much difference at all if Bibi had been defeated by "opposition leader" Benny Gantz in 2020 either. They seemed to agree on 90% of the issues overall, their loathing of each other appeared to be personal. And quite frankly, Gantz should have trusted his instincts in being dead-set against joining any government with Bibi in charge, given what happened after he did so.
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