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Likud Leads with 30 Seats After 99% of Ballots Counted [Netanyahu & Israel]
Arutz Sheva ^ | Wednesday, March 18, 2015 | Elad Benari

Posted on 03/17/2015 7:49:55 PM PDT by Star Traveler

Binyamin Netanyahu appears to be headed towards a greater victory than predicted by exit polls, with 30 seats. "Zionist Camp" has 24.

As counting of votes continues in the elections for the 20th Knesset, the Likud party may be headed for an even bigger victory than exit polls originally predicted.

As of 4:25 a.m. (Israel time), 99.5% of the ballots have been counted and the Likud is leading the pact with 30 seats. The “Zionist Union” of Labor and Hatnua has 24 seats.

The Joint Arab List has 13 seats, followed by Yesh Atid with 11 seats and Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu with ten.

The Jewish Home has eight seats, the haredi parties Shas and United Torah Judaism each have seven seats, Yisrael Beytenu has six and Meretz closes out the list with four seats.

Despite earlier indications that it may have passed the threshold, it appears as though Eli Yishai’s Yachad party will be left out of the Knesset.

Netanyahu addressed supporters of the Likud earlier Tuesday night, saying the results were a “great victory” for the nationalist camp in Israel.

“Against all odds, we have achieved a great victory for the Likud. We have achieved a great victory for the Likud-led nationalist camp and our people,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bibi; bibiwonobamalost; israel; likud; netanyahu; netanyahuvictory
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To: KC_Lion

30? That’s two more then when I fell asleep. Can’t wait to wake in the morning ,maybe theyll form a coalition already ! LOL


101 posted on 03/17/2015 10:30:02 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?)
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To: TomasUSMC

Netanyahu was, shall we say, exaggerating. Hey, it’s election time.


102 posted on 03/17/2015 10:32:52 PM PDT by hlmencken3 (I paid for an argument, but you're just contradicting!)
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To: Star Traveler

Now, time for Israel to start investigating all those foreign influence dollars that suddenly showed up in ZU’s coffers...


103 posted on 03/17/2015 10:35:43 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

Well, from our perspective, we might want that ... but Israel has their own issues to deal with and in addition to Iran and Hamas and Hezbollah, they’ve got a bunch of domestic issues ... which just about caused Netanyahu to lose. They’ve got a boatload of their own problems to fdeal with.


104 posted on 03/17/2015 10:51:49 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: KC_Lion
ValJar is mad . . .

Zer0 is crying . . .

Axelrod is flustered . . .

The Lame Stream Media is having a fit . . .


105 posted on 03/17/2015 10:55:18 PM PDT by jonrick46 (America's real drug problem: other people's money (the Commutist's opium addiction).)
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To: hlmencken3

Arabs make up TWENTY PERCENT OF ISRAEL? man man MAN....blacks only make up 15 percent of the population here and we got a black President. Time is not on the side of the Jews. They better throw that nuclear punch at Iran before its own electoral process cuts that arm off.


106 posted on 03/17/2015 11:00:45 PM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: Williams
Yes but does anything ever come out the way Obama wanted?

Only when he has Boehner and McConnell on the other side of the table.

107 posted on 03/17/2015 11:15:53 PM PDT by Defiant (Please excuse Mr. Clinton for his involvement with young girls. --Epstein's Mother)
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To: Williams

“Yes but does anything ever come out the way Obama wanted?”

Unfortunately, yes.


108 posted on 03/17/2015 11:22:25 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: Star Traveler

I agree with your reasons, but I credit backlash against obama’s active interference as a considerable factor as well.


109 posted on 03/17/2015 11:33:39 PM PDT by matthew fuller (God put me on Earth to eradicate cancer and liberalism. I'm starting with liberalism.)
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To: Varsity Flight

Catching AP news at 10 PM PDT, they went straight to puffing about the Shrock story, then got to election and said it was a dead heat and could take 4-6 weeks to sort out and that Bibi would have to be more moderate in light of the results against him.

Why am I not surprised?


110 posted on 03/17/2015 11:35:27 PM PDT by Ronniesque
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To: freedom6178

Won’t get a good night’s sleep until after November 2016...


111 posted on 03/18/2015 5:06:10 AM PDT by Netz
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To: Gritty
America was teetering in 2008. The scales tipped with the inauguration of the Muslim-Manchuirian-Trojan-Horse-candidate.
Bambi has done his very best to make the US spiral downwards, out of control without personal culpability. He should have been impeached years ago but the public put the dunce back in the WH.
For those who thought GWB was “dumb” look at the performance of the current POTUS.
112 posted on 03/18/2015 5:13:15 AM PDT by Netz
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To: ez
Israeli BIASED Media reported a tie or a one seat difference when voters went to bed, local time. In the morning, the true devastating effect to Israel's elites and LEFT media were revealed. It's like Lincoln's old saying about not fooling all of the people, all of the time...
113 posted on 03/18/2015 5:16:45 AM PDT by Netz
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To: Netz

I wondered if the Israeli media was as evil as ours. Do they have any conservative television? We have Zero.


114 posted on 03/18/2015 5:25:23 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: KC_Lion

Excellent news!


115 posted on 03/18/2015 5:31:49 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: onyx

I was just daydreaming about living under the service of Netanyahu. Brings tears to my eyes. As a military mom I prayed for good commanders. His boot camp DI was a Christian and had a good influence on him.

Influence was lacking in the last 2 campaigns except for Palin who proved to be too dangerous for the GOP. Why any of us thought that reaching-across-the-aisle Mccain had a chance I don’t know. I hated the way the dems got away without even a little questioning, no advertising about communist policies.

The time is past for educating the masses. They don’t even know they are chained and in cages, literal slaves to DC.


116 posted on 03/18/2015 5:35:41 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Star Traveler

—— it appears as though Eli Yishai’s Yachad party will be left out-—

I think this means it did not get 3.25% of the vote. But isn’t the total number of seats fixed?

I don’t understand


117 posted on 03/18/2015 5:37:40 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: TomasUSMC

If the Israeli Arabs really wanted to cause trouble they could. They make up 20% of the population. If a significant minority of that 20% of the population actually worked to undermine the state that country would be a living hell as one saw in Northern Ireland, Argentina, Central America and now Iraq.


118 posted on 03/18/2015 5:53:44 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: huldah1776
Israel has no real Conservative TV. No FOX News. All of the 3 main channels (CH 1, 2 and CH 10) are kind of like the old CBS, ABC and NBC of yesteryear. They are ALL biased, all Left-wing, anti-religious, anti-Nationalistic and PRO-ARAB.
They hate Bibi, his wife and family and they deeply resent the fact that he won the elections after Rabin's assassination in 1996. They see him as an outsider, renegade Capitalistic Pig and not a former Socialist, Monolithic leader like Shimon Peres.
119 posted on 03/18/2015 5:54:09 AM PDT by Netz
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To: Star Traveler
It's highly unlikely Netanyahu would comply.


120 posted on 03/18/2015 5:54:50 AM PDT by wtd
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