Benjamin Netanyahu on September 14, 2010.jpg: US State Dept.derivative work:
TheCuriousGnome [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Posted on 12/26/2019 7:53:23 PM PST by Perseverando
Benjamin Netanyahu on September 14, 2010.jpg: US State Dept.derivative work:
TheCuriousGnome [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Today was newsworthy in Israel because it saw torrential rainfalls that brought with them in one day the average rainfall of the entire month of December and because incumbent PM and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu easily defeated the leadership challenge from Likud member of the Knesset Gideon Sa’ar.
The primary election saw 49% of all Likud party members show up to vote in spite of the stormy weather, a slight increase over the last time a primary election was held by the Likud. Of the nearly 60 thousand people that cast a ballot, 72.5% did so for the incumbent Netanyahu and 27.5% for his challenger Gideon Sa’ar.
Netanyahu’s win was expected, but the landslide proportions of it were not and thus the primary challenge itself had most assuredly worked to Netanyahu’s advantage. It reaffirmed his complete hold over the Likud party and gave him a reason to re-energize his base ahead of the March 2nd general election.
But there is more. In the coming days, the Israeli Supreme Court will hear an appeal on whether a member of the Knesset under criminal indictment such as Mr. Netanyahu can be tasked with forming a government. Attorney general Mandelblit, Netanyahu’s nemensis and the very person who has allowed the indictments against him to proceed will issue an opinion on this matter and submit it to the cort ahead of the hearing. Mr. Mandelblit’s legal opinion will be the official legal position of the Israeli government and the court will have to render the final decision.
The fact that nearly 45 thousand Israelis braved the weather on a regular workday (general elections in Israel are national holidays) to express their confidence in Mr. Netanyahu’s leadership may make the idea of making their preferred candidate ineligible for the post of prime minister rather unpalatable for the high court, no matter how far removed from the regular electorate they may think themselves to be.
Netanyahu’s easy defeat of a challenge that was brought against him by a popular politician at a moment when he appeared to be significantly if not mortally wounded serves as a timely reminder to anyone who harbored any doubts as to the political mastery of the longest serving and most successful Israeli prime minister of all time.
There’s a number of “Donald Trump of (put country here)” now.
They’re of course NOT Donald Trump but are against the NWO just as Trump is.
England, Israel, Brasil, India...and I think others will follow.
That’s a great thing.
A truly great man. For awhile, I considered him the leader of the free world! Hope he wins in a landslide in the general.
This is why they are prosecuting him on BS charges.
As with Trump, they can’t beat him fair-and-square so they resort to lawfare.
Netanyahu will again win the general election by a wide margin.
Israel and the world needs Netanyahu.
The peace depends on Netanyahu.
Trump, Netanyahu, AND Boris Johnson people are FED UP EVERYWHERE the globalists ARE LOSING!!{
Orban of Hungary
AFter the England rout... winning
Yay!!
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It is surreal how in both Israel and Great Britain the people are rising up as in America and drawing a line in the sand!!
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I just posted the same before I read your post. HUGE DITTOS!!!
I wonder what Drudge is saying. Not going there in months now. Would be funny to see it going into meltdown
It’s about freakin’ time.
Churchill knew this. We need fighters now, the enemy is at the gates...inside the gates in some cases.
It's really not a good time for Northam, Herring and the rest of the demoKKKrats in Virginia to be going full Stalinist police state while Donald Trump is President.
Northam can call up the Virginia National Guard. Trump can "Trump" him by Federalizing the Guard, and send in the Marines for good measure. Oooh Rah!
Have you seen this?
Great Thing!
Bump
Very good news. I’d be interested to know what knowledgeable people think of Netanyahu’s chances in the general.
I thought you were referring to someone from the middle ages lol
Just the way the title read “Orban of Hungary!!”
I had to look it up :)
YES, we can add him too.
Putin is useful in the way that he has great disdain for one world government too. And I am glad he halted the massacres by ISIS until Trump won and crushed them.
But I am sorry, I still do not trust him as many here do now.
Perhaps war games with China and Iran is one of the reasons :)
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