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Netanyahu's popularity surges as Gaza genocide nears one year mark: Poll
The Cradle ^ | 09/13/2024

Posted on 09/13/2024 9:24:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

An opinion poll published on Friday showed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party would win the largest number seats in the parliament if an election were held now.

The poll, published in the Hebrew language Maariv newspaper, showed Likud winning 24 Knesset seats, against the 32 the party now holds. The National Unity Party led by former general Benny Gantz would receive 21 seats.
Via Associated Press

Though Likud would win the most seats, Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, which includes nationalist-religious and ultra-Orthodox parties, would lose any election held now, with 53 seats in the 120-seat parliament. The main opposition bloc would win 58-seats, according to the poll.

Earlier opinion polls taken after the start of the war in Gaza regularly showed Likud gaining only 16 to18 seats.

Netanyahu and Likud’s popularity fell drastically, as many Israeli voters blamed the Prime Minister for the alleged security failures of the military and intelligence apparatus on 7 October.

Members of Hamas’ armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, breached the Gaza border fence to attack Israeli settlements and military bases imposing a siege on the strip. Qassam and other Palestinian fighters were able to take 240 captives back to Gaza.

Some 1,200 Israelis were killed during the operation. Some were killed by Hamas fighters, while many were killed by Israeli attack helicopters, tanks, and drones, per the controversial Hannibal Directive.

Netanyahu and his coalition partners, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, have refused to agree to a ceasefire deal with Hamas that would return the Israelis who are still captive in Gaza, preferring instead to continue the war that has killed a reported more than 40,000 Palestinians and destroy large swathes of the strip.

Netanyahu, Smotrich, and Ben Gvir established their ruling coalition following elections in late 2022. Israel’s next parliamentary election is not due until 2026.


TOI: Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas in Gaza block a main road in Tel Aviv during a protest calling for their release, September 13, 2024. Flash90

The survey also showed Netanyahu's personal popularity is improving. Israelis responding to the poll said they preferred Netanyahu over any alternative potential candidate apart from former prime minister Naftali Bennett, who has retired from public life.

In contrast to Likud, Ben-Gvir’s Jewish Power party and Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party have fallen in popularity since October 7. Both parties therefore have an incentive not to leave the government and call for early elections, Reuters reported.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; netanyahu; popularity; smear

1 posted on 09/13/2024 9:24:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The Gaza genocide? What kind of trash is this article? It’s a war. Gaza attacked Israel on October 7 in one of the most gruesome surprise attacks in human history. Israel is destroying the enemy completely, no differently than we did with Japan and Germany. Garbage to call it a genocide.


2 posted on 09/13/2024 9:30:24 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: SeekAndFind
The survey also showed Netanyahu's personal popularity is improving. Israelis responding to the poll said they preferred Netanyahu over any alternative potential candidate apart from former prime minister Naftali Bennett, who has retired from public life.

Everyone is a Leftist over there.

Naftali Bennett seemed like a reasonable guy when he was the PM. So why did he retire from politics?

3 posted on 09/13/2024 9:30:37 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: SeekAndFind

[Gaza genocide]

Otherwise known as FAFO (Fool Around, Find Out).


4 posted on 09/13/2024 9:35:16 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too. 😁 " - Robert Conquest )
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Men Matters


5 posted on 09/13/2024 9:40:03 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: DesertRhino

Who keeps singing the river to the sea song? There is the genocidal maniacs. Bibi called their bluff. He’s a leader.


6 posted on 09/13/2024 9:43:04 PM PDT by Kudsman (Cat lives matter.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Bennett ran to the right of Netanyahu but when given the opportunity he screwed his voters, joined with the far Left Meretz Party and was willing to essentially bribe the United Arab List $150 million to support him as PM.

And even then, he had to join up with know-nothing, stand for nothing Lapid’s party. Bennett lasted one year, then his partner Lapid lasted 6 months.

Bennett is a multimillionaire with strong American connections and nothing else to do. He’ll pretend to be a Righty again and try a comeback.


7 posted on 09/13/2024 9:59:12 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: SeekAndFind

People keep trying to say Bibi isn’t popular.

Well, here they go.


8 posted on 09/14/2024 12:12:05 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

They put up webcams sometimes in Gaza. I was watching one a couple days ago. There was no genocide going on. People were on their cell phones, driving cars, and walking around.


9 posted on 09/14/2024 12:25:52 AM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: DesertRhino

We can all agree if Israel wanted to exterminate the Gazans there would be none left at this point.


10 posted on 09/14/2024 4:13:18 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: SeekAndFind
The moral inversion here is stunning.

The war in Gaza started on Oct 7 with an act of willful and proudly publicly proclaimed act of genocide against the Jewish people by Hamas.

On Oct 7 Hamas terrorists committed genocidal atrocities that shocked the conscience of the world

Israel's response has been carefully crafted to root out the Hamas enemy with minimal collateral damage to the technically non combatant Gaza civilian population.

This is a very difficult job because Hamas is very open about it's use of Gaza's women and children as human shields.

Central to Hamas strategy is to embed itself in the civilian population and then to goad Israel into attacks against Hamas that create large numbers of civilian casualties and to use the deaths as collateral damage for propaganda purposes.

So, in essence, Hamas is committing genocide against the people of Gaza who they claim to represent.

They then try to blame this Hamas created genocide against their own people on Israel.

11 posted on 09/14/2024 5:52:58 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: SeekAndFind

Regardless of what they say they are, The Cradle is pro Hezbollah. (Islamist Terrorists backed directly by Iran)


https://t.me/s/TheCradleMedia


So, I call this propaganda. (like in our own MSM)


12 posted on 09/14/2024 6:40:15 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: PLMerite
Remember this lizard....he was eliminated yesterday...


13 posted on 09/14/2024 8:59:17 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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