I have no problem whatsoever with Netanyahu's foreign policy views. He is 100% right about Iran.
Rather, I've found that Netanyahu "as a sort of RINO" on social issues. If taxpayer funded abortion-on-demand for women age 18 to 35 and having the most "gay friendly" cities in the Middle East and using the government to promote homos constantly is "conservative", I'd hate to see what Israel's idea of liberal is.
If I was President, I'd give Netanyahu an earful about his social policies when he comes here and asks us to support his country. Israel is killing more Jewish babies than Hamas could ever dream of.
That being said, since fringe third parties aren't going to accomplish anything besides winning a few marginal seats, there's no question anyone right-of-center should support Netanyahu and pray he gets another term as PM. The country is screwed if another Ehud Barak type gets in who wants to play footsie with the Palestinians and sell off half his country.
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.
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......