Posted on 03/08/2015 12:19:40 PM PDT by Star Traveler
Almost two-thirds of Israelis would prefer a prime minister other than Binyamin Netanyahu, according to a surprise new poll that suggests the incumbent may be more vulnerable than previously thought.
The survey for the Jerusalem Post and its Hebrew sister paper, Ma’ariv, was taken on Wednesday, a day after Netanyahu announced snap elections, and appears to undermine earlier polls that suggest his re-election will be straightforward. It also points to a complicated, febrile and unpredictable election campaign.
Asked whether they wanted Netanyahu to remain prime minister 60% of respondents said no, 34% said yes and 6% said they did not know. But the poll did indicate that the most popular party remains Netanyahu’s Likud – suggesting a gulf between the popularity of him and that of his party.
Ben Caspit, commenting on his paper’s poll in Friday’s Ma’ariv, is not surprised.
“The Netanyahu loyalists, his hardcore, still believe in him [...] The rest of the public, a large number of Israelis, does not want him.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
If Netanyahu goes ,Obama Wins and Israel is toast
Tens of thousands attend anti-Netanyahu rally in Tel Aviv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3265624/posts
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis are gathering at a Tel Aviv square under the banner “Israel wants change” and calling for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be replaced in March 17 national elections.
Saturday night’s rally at Rabin Square is the highest profile demonstration yet in the run-up to the election. It is organized by a non-profit organization seeking to change Israel’s priorities and refocus on health, education, housing and the country’s cost of living.
Because Israel is next on list for a regime change? Would McCain call it an ‘Anemone revolution’ or ‘Jerusalem spring’?
Can we switch out our usurper for Bibi?
A lot of this is just Israeli politics. Netanyahu was slightly behind from the start and there’s the usual fatigue factor for a leader who’s been around a long time.
Several higher ups on the Labor list admitted Herzog would have had to give the same speech to Congress that Bibi did.
Also, Netanyahu isn’t the conservative a lot of Americans think he is. He talks right and governs left like a Mitt Romney. It has been recently reported that Bibi, like Sharon, offered to give up Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.
Remember that there are some American political manipulators, probably paid for with US tax dollars, sent there on Obama’s orders to destabilize Israel, in the hope of getting a leftist government that will be elected on a platform of mass Jewish suicide.
With that as an axiom, it would just cost them chump change to create a bogus poll.
Importantly, this will be at least the *second* time such scoundrels have been sent there to try and tear down the Israeli government. The last time they organized a protest of about 100,000, based on the model of the US Occupy plot. But it was a total wash, just like the Occupy movement in the US.
Let’s also keep in mind that this is the Communist Guardian reporting.
Are obamas’ “boots on the ground” in Israel leaking this info I hopes that Benjamins voters won’t turn out? They tried doing is here in the US in GA and got their butts handed to them in 2014.
If Netanyahu goes ,Obama Wins and Israel is toast
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Israel won’t be the only one going down. . . . I believe the USA is living on borrowed time . . God has totally demolished nations for much less than our country’s anti-God shenanigans. Our mainline denomination churches have become lukewarm . . . unfortunately their congregations don’t know the difference.
It’s a “known quantity” that there is already a sizable opposition to Netanyahu, in Israel. That’s actually not new. Netanyahu has always been “squeaking through” ... :-) ...
He was Prime Minister before (in the 90s) and was defeated then. I hope it’s not this election that he’s defeated, but in any case, it has to happened at some point.
If they get another Left soft in the brain leader in Israel right now, they nation is at serious risk.
Obama doesn’t have it’s back. Europe doesn’t. Nobody else does. If Israel doesn’t have a hard-ball Prime Minister, they’re in a world of hurt.
I note this article found a way to use the title without attributing it to Netanyahu.
Nowhere dies it address him as Prime Minister Netanyahu, even though they do skirt it by addressing him as the current prime minister once down in the article.
He should be referenced as Prime Minister Netanyahu up front, and then as Netanyahu later on if they wish to go unformal.
That’s true, but this news about the opposition to Netanyahu isn’t really “news” ... :-) ... everyone over in Israel already knows this. It’s over in America that some may not realize it.
Well, Netanyahu was defeated in the 90s, and some say it was Clinton’s doing ...
This could be the process that the Bible talks about where the entire world turns against Israel. I don’t know exactly when that’s going to happen, but it does seem to be shaping up that way now.
I can see numerous reasons for them to be frustrated with Netanyahu but in face of blatant foreign manipulation people must stand by their leader. History proved it more than once. You can’t consider yourself a citizen of sovereign nation if you allow it to work otherwise.
That will never happen to Israel, as the Bible says that God preserves the land of Israel for the return of the Jews. That return is not completed yet. And when it is completed, God says that Israel remains a nation before him forevermore!
8 comments in and I find someone noting the source: The Guardian.
Any analysis of the story has to start with that reminder.
Sure, but the day-to-day tracking of aggregate polls and even talking to ordinary people in Israel tells a similar story.
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