Posted on 11/01/2022 2:01:01 PM PDT by packagingguy
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared well placed to return to power after exit polls following Tuesday’s election showed his right-wing bloc heading for a narrow majority lifted by a strong showing from his far-right allies.
Israel’s longest-serving premier, on trial over corruption charges which he denies, was poised to take 61-62 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, according to Israeli television exit polls.
The campaign, which opened weeks after a brief conflict with the militant Islamic Jihad group in Gaza in August, has also unrolled against a backdrop of increasing violence in the occupied West Bank, with near-daily raids and clashes.
Lapid, whose camp was poised to take 54-55 seats, according to the polls, had campaigned on his stewardship of Israel’s strong economy as well as diplomatic advances with countries including Lebanon and Turkey but it was not enough to stop the right.
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Normally it's Italy that changes governments every few months. Now Britain and Israel join the club.
Guess the Western world has trouble making up our minds.
An omen for Trump?
Thank GOD!
Well Bolsonaro is not conceding. He’s going to contest the election. BTW he’s on Truth Social; I have his page open in front of me.
As for Netanyahu probably it was the Palestinians attacking almost daily which caused the voters to lean right.
Obama and ValJar are saddened.
Amen.
My blog post on the election...
https://nextrushfree.blogspot.com/2022/11/breaking-news-israels-election-2022.html
It’s endlessly fascinating how many times another poster was thinking the same thing I was.
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