Posted on 03/26/2021 7:23:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Are they using Dominion voting machines?
HA HA!
Whatever happened to the lefties trying to prosecute Netanyahu?
Does anyone know what the record number of elections is in a (mature) parliamentary system within the same time span?
Four has got to be close to that record, if it’s not one itself.
Nope.
Prosecution of Netanyahu is still ongoing. There are certain delays as long as N is PM.
There’s some thought that N might run for President of Israel, protecting him from prosecution while allowing Yamina (Bennett) to join a right-center-religious bloc government with a stable majority.
How many seats did the Judean People’s Front win?
The weirdest thing (at least to me) about these parliamentary democracies is the who/what/where/when/how of an election being called for/forced.
Long before the Beit HaMikdash was built, there were two brothers lived and farmed in what is now Jerusalem.
One was married and had a large family while the other was single. They lived in close proximity to each other and each worked his land growing wheat. When harvest time arrived, each was blessed with a bountiful crop and piled up his grain for long-term storage. The unmarried brother, observing his good fortune, thought to himself that Hashem had blessed him with more than he needed, whereas his brother, who was blessed with a large family, could surely use more.
The first brother arose in the middle of the night and secretly took from his grain and put it in his brother’s pile.
At the same time, the second brother, the married brother, thought to himself that he was fortunate to have children who will care for him in his old age, while his brother will depend on what he saved. He, too, arose in the middle of the night and quietly transferred grain from his pile to his brother’s.
In the morning, each pondered why there was no noticeable decrease in his own pile and so they repeated the transfer the next night. These nocturnal activities went on for several nights, until one night the brothers bumped into each other on the hill that divided their fields.
In that instant, in the dark of night, the glow of brotherly love lit up the sky above the hill; they each understood what the other had been doing and fell into each other’s arms in a loving embrace.
When Hashem saw that display of hat display of brotherly love, He selected the site for His Temple.
Now, as this was going on, there were two other brothers, who, instead of each surreptitiously gifting grain to the other, are actually stealing from each other.
One evening these other two brothers bump into each other on a second hill, each holding a bag of wheat that he has just stolen from his brother. They proceeded to beat the crap out of each other and both died on the hill.
On his second hill is built the Israeli Knesset.
Looks like seven, but they have some splitters.
Looks like if you have 2 Israelis in a room, you will have 3 political parties :)
They should have a cut-off limit for % of votes for the parties - in Germany I believe that is 10%. In Poland it is 5%
Heh heh, I know now you must live in Poland.
It’s the ‘People’s Front of Judea’.
How about the Popular Front? Isn’t that him over there?
How long before the Arab Party become the majority party and gets rid of the Jews in their country?
No that’s Benny.
Huh?
In a surprising gain, the Arab Party now controls the balance. The other two parties do not have a majority. So which of the other two the Arab Party sides with will determine who wins.
The Arab Party may be tiny but it has grown over the past decades. At some point it will no linger be tiny.
The Knesset (Parliament) has 120 seats... Likud... won only 30 seats... Shas... won 9 seats... UTJ (which stands for United Torah Judaism...) won 7 seats... Religious Zionism... won 6 seats.
Yamina... won 7 seats.
Yisrael Beitenu... won 7 seats.
Labor (center-left), for many years the main rival to Likud but now a shell of itself, won 7 seats.
New Hope (center-right to right) won 6 seats.
52 seats on that first excerpted line, 27 more seats (and including Labor wasn't an accident) possible, Bibi only needs 9. If he can bring Labor aboard, in the next election (y'know, six months from now) the remaining Labor voters will jump to other parties and Labor will no longer be any more a threat than Blue and White. ;^)
Demographics / birth rates / infant survival / longevity all favor an increasing Jewish majority in Israel.
Unfortunately, Israeli Jews seem to be more and more liberal with suicidal urges coming more to the front, but still not as strong as they were when Peres was alive; so demographics, etc are no guarantee of future Israeli Jew political control of Israel.
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