Posted on 03/13/2015 12:20:35 AM PDT by Star Traveler
Its campaign has grown frantic, its activists are moribund. And though it would be wrong to bury the ruling Likud party, its supporters are right to be worried.
The Likud party is losing the election. That’s not the assessment of pollsters or analysts but of Likud itself, which has spent much of the last few days in an increasingly frantic scramble to warn right-wing voters that voting for any other right-wing party could lead to a left-wing government.
“We might wake up in a week and find that Tzipi [Livni] and [Isaac] Boujie [Herzog] are prime ministers of Israel,” Netanyahu himself warned in a campaign video Wednesday after multiple polls showed Likud dropping to 21 seats while the rival center-left Zionist Union rose to 24 and even 25.
That scenario is “a real danger,” warned Likud MK Yisrael Katz.
“When the right was split in 1992, it brought the Oslo Accords. In 1999, it brought the [Ehud] Barak government,” a Likud statement warned ominously, urging supporters of Jewish Home, Shas, Kulanu and other parties to switch to the center-right mainstay in order to avoid a similar calamity.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
Since they use party-list proportional representation, there is little to risk by voting for any right of center party (that has enough support to win seats). My own perusal of their parties though shows none I would support over Likud.
Both the Times of Israel and Haaretz are leftist papers; try Arutz Sheva or JPost.
Party polls find Likud slipping with elections a week away
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Party-polls-find-Likud-slipping-with-elections-a-week-away-393557
Zionist Union Maintains Advantage in Final Polls
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192592#.VQN86Bg8KrU
The raw numbers require analysis.
It’s the same reports across the board ... including the Jerusalem Post and Arutz Sheva ... :-) ...
Likud itself is letting their people know the bad news.
Thanks FRiend for the Good News of the Gospel. There's no "probably" about it with me. When every single mooselimb is killed and satan's death cult of islam is eternally eradicated, that will indeed be a day of boundless rejoicing!
Likud will form the next government as part of a coalition that holds the majority of Knesset seats.
That's by far the most likely scenario; there aren't enough parties on the left and center to give Zionist Union a majority coalition, even with a 25 seat win. But a big win by ZU will force Netanyahu to include the hard right and the ultra-Orthodox parties in his coalition (which means he will lose Yesh Atid, who are center-right but totally unacceptable to the religious parties because of their insistence on drafting Yeshiva students into the Army). The result will be a coalition that Netanyahu will have trouble working with, giving him an unstable majority.
There’s a “Left” trend in Israel. At the beginning the socialists were the dominant force with their kibbutzim (communal farms) and so on.
Israel’s socialistic system has been dependent on American help and America now looks to Arab countries for financial resources, trade and so on.....
Based on his words about Iran, Netanyahu comes off as a tough guy. There’s a part of me that hopes he wins on Tuesday just so we can see his reaction as Prime Minister when Obama announces some deal perhaps in a few weeks.
I think there’s a bigger picture than one party like the Dems being the bad guys all the time and the Reps are the good guys all the time in this country.
Take the Vietnam War, for instance. Much is made of the way Lyndon Johnson geared it up and ran it. But before that the base for Communist operations against South Vietnam was created in North Vietnam in 1955.
Indochina was partitioned at a conference table in Geneva with the Republicans in charge (Dwight Eisenhower as President and John Foster Dulles Secretary of State).
The “Sprit of Geneva” as the media back then called it produced a Communist state in North Vietnam that would be used as the base to launch the war against South Vietnam that led to United States military intervention.
I find it interesting that Netanyahu set this election date just ahead of an Iran nuclear deal and made vocal opposition to it part of his political campaign.
Reminds of all those Republicans wailing about Amnesty last year to get people’s votes, then when Obama makes his move, the Republican leaders prevent any meaningful moves against it.
As the opposition leader, Netanyahu will have a platform to attack the Iranian deal day and night. As PM would his tune be different??????
I think all the big political parties in Israel are full of wheelers and dealers ready to do deals when the time is right. It was Likud’s Ariel Sharon that pulled back in Gaza a decade or so ago. He went out and created some new political party to pull that trick off......
And if so, the stage is set even more for an Armageddon event or even THE Armageddon event.
So will all the worlds nukes be in the hands of nations that are basically leftist?
If Mr. Netenyahu loses, Israel loses land to the ISIS terrorists and Islamic terrorists will set up more bombs to destroy Israel’s cities then.
Voters are getting more and more stupid for some reason. Lies are turning their heads and they are refusing to see and to reason with their minds.
[If Bibi looses it is probably another sign of the End of Days. I could never see Bibi making a deal with the Antichrist, but a Leftist PM would.]
I would not be surprised at all. The precipitation of the anit Christ will be a political leader who will promote a false agreement that will result in the 7 year tribulation of the whole earth and Jacobs trouble in Israel, as the Scriptures teach Bible student who read it all.
No Iran should not get the bomb and should be prevented in doing so, but there are better ways to go about it. Iraq should of proven that, but here we go again with the same cast of characters.
I think you’re way off about this.
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