Posted on 03/17/2015 1:48:53 PM PDT by Star Traveler
Exit polls released after the close of voting in Israel's national election show that the race is too close to call.
Israel's Channel 1 and Channel 10 both said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party and Isaac Herzog's Zionist Union secured 27 seats each in the 120-seat Knesset. Channel 2, meanwhile, have Likud 28 seats and the Zionist Union 27. The numbers were published by Haaretz.
What that is likely to mean is, as NPR's Emily Harris tells our Newscast unit, Israel's new government won't be immediately known.
Emily says:
"The new government will need approval from a majority of the newly elected parliament. No party has ever won a straight majority in Israel, so the leader of the party with the most votes gets several weeks to try to negotiate a coalition among parties with sometimes very different agendas. For a while during this tight race, there was talk that the center-left Zionist Union party led by Yitzak Herzog and the center-right Likud party led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could potentially join the same government. Netanyahu ruled that out in the last days of campaigning."
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agreed....
I think Netanyahu should win it, but right now I also know the other side has not conceded and is saying Netanyahu is wrong.
Now, they can say that with Exit Polling ... BUT ... they can’t say that when the OFFICIAL RESULTS come out on Wednesday, Israeli time ... :-) ...
Aha. They have it stamped both ways.
My bad. The fresher stamp rules.
The left wing is saying too close to call. The right wing is saying Bibi won.
Guess we need to wait until the left figures out how many votes they need to win and how long until Al Franken gets there.
It's too bad for Obama that Israel is such a young nation. There weren't enough dead there for Obama's operatives to sway the vote.
It's like a US political cold war.
Does it mean Obama’s butt-kissing media reported it all incorrect when stated Bibi has a single digit rating? Does it mean that all efforts by Dept of State to decisively crush Likud are all in vain? No ‘peace in our time’ in Palestine??
Would they incite riots over ‘botched elections’ in case of Herzog’s defeat?
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