Posted on 03/18/2015 2:51:05 AM PDT by Haiku Guy
TEL AVIV After a bruising campaign focused on his failings, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel won a clear victory in Tuesdays elections and seemed all but certain to form a new government and serve a fourth term, though he offended many voters and alienated allies in the process.
With 99.5 percent of the ballots counted, the YNet news site reported Wednesday morning that Mr. Netanyahus Likud Party had captured 29 or 30 of the 120 seats in Parliament, sweeping past his chief rival, the center-left Zionist Union alliance, which got 24 seats.
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Looks like Likud has 30 right now, 6 ahead of ZU.
A record 28 women (up 1) and 17 Arabs (up 5) made it in.
Yachad falls 12,000 votes short of the threshold.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-looks-to-form-right-religious-coalition-in-coming-weeks/
Likud wins Jerusalem, Zionist Union takes TA
Likud is the most-voted party in: Jerusalem (24%), Rishon Lezion (29%), Netanya (33%), Holon (31%), Eilat (35%), Kiryat Shemona (38%), and the main cities in the south battered by last summers war Ashdod (31%), Ashkelon (39%), Beersheba (37%), and Sderot (42%).
The Zionist Union beats out Likud in Tel Aviv (34%), Caesarea (37%), Raanana (32%), and Haifa (25%). Herzog was also far more popular than Netanyahu in the war-torn kibbutzim along the Gaza border, receiving 53% of the vote in the region, as compared to 6% for Likud.
Thank God for the election results! The free world still has a leader. Thank you, Lord!
I hope some official, recognised group conducts a study and publicises the results, showing that US leftwing interference actually hurt Netanyahu’s opposition.
i was going to post exactly that....to bad NYSlimes...
Praise God and thank you Israel for re-electing Netanyahu!
What a load of crock from the New York Slimes.
They want the counters to continue to count until the vote tally matches the pre-election polls. You know, like Democrats do in Minnesota, or Cook County, Il or King County, WA.
It's why corrupt poll workers must be slow roasted over a hickory smoked fire, in public.
Republicans will learn nothing from this conservative victory. They will go in a different direction.
Now if we can get us a BiBi here.
Pretty much,
Seems everything this poser touches turns to crap.
Just look at moochelle
He offended so many voters that he won in a landslide?
I love that!
Amen!
At least there is ONE leader who will stand up to Iran.
dececent = decent
You walked right *into* that one. :-)
They are sticking their fingers in their ears saying "LALALALALALALA LA!!!" That was the last number that was good for them, so that is what they are going to talk about.
First bit of really good news in a long long time.
Feeling good today.
Now that is really telling, and grim news. One would think the remnant living under such a rain of weapons would know better than to cave. A negotiated settlement will buy them worse.
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