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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBibi in big trouble: New poll shows Israeli PM in danger of losing bid for fourth term
Corroborating other surveys showing that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to score a big polling bounce following his controversial March 3 congressional address on Iran, a new poll released Tuesday finds the prime minister in grave danger of losing his bid for a fourth term ahead of national elections in one week.
The poll, from the Knesset Channel, puts the center-left Zionist Union ahead of Netanyahus Likud party, with the Zionist Union on track to win 24 seats in the 120-seat parliament to Likuds 21. The centrist Yesh Atid party is projected to win 14 seats.
Haaretz notes that if the Zionist Union joins forces with Yesh Atid and smaller left-leaning and Arab parties, it could form a government with 56 seats. Combining with smaller right-rightist and ultra-Orthodox parties, Netanyahu is on track to assemble 55 seats at most.
The Zionist Union is a coalition of Isaac Herzogs Labor and Tzipi Livinis Hatnuah parties. If the coalition manages to form a government, the two plan to rotate the prime ministership, with Herzog serving as premier for the first two years of the governments term and Livni serving for the latter half. Both Herzog and Livni harshly criticized Netanyahus congressional address denouncing a potential Iranian nuclear deal, arguing that the speech further isolated Israel on the international stage.
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http://www.salon.com/2015/03/10/bibi_in_big_trouble_new_poll_shows_israeli_pm_in_danger_of_losing_bid_for_fourth_term/
TBF
(32,085 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)We can hope anyway.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)he no longer has presence on the international stage, the better for the security of both Israel and the US.
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2naSalit
(86,765 posts)more deserving putz. Hope he gets his ass handed to him on a silver platter.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)It's incredible that he's even around at this point.
A measure, I guess, of how stagnant the thinking is over there.
WestSeattle2
(1,730 posts)ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)The House? It is so full of hot air and bluster, that I will be opening a 35 yr old bottle of scotch when the number of times they vote to repeal ACA reaches 100. Which might be in a couple of weeks.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,157 posts)And you think Boehner drinks heavy now? I'd hate to see the bender he goes on if Bibi falls.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)1) It would be good for Israel
2) It would be good for America
3) I liked Israel better when it had a Labour government.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Get rid of that POS war monger! RWing assholes are all the same... no matter what country they are in.
williesgirl
(4,033 posts)he belongs.
Roy Rolling
(6,928 posts)No doubt this is what many of us think, but it may be a bit "over the top" to put in writing.
I just think if troll right-wingers wanted to discredit DU they would use posts like this to call us extremists.
But I'm not gonna be so presumptuous as to "alert" the post, I'm sure williesgirl knows what is best. "Over the top" is a very subjective standard.
the old joke comes to mind:
In the courtroom, the defendant on the witness stand asks, "Judge, what if I were to call you an asshole?"
The judge replied, "I'd lock you up for contempt of court!"
The defendant replied, "What if I don't say it but just think it?"
The judge replied, "That's okay."
So the defendant says, "then let the record reflect that I think the judge is an asshole."
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)tanyev
(42,600 posts)telling Israelis how they should vote would be helpful.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Iggo
(47,564 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)and never be heard from again.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)keep managing to float back to the top.
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)It's a bitch.
brooklynite
(94,700 posts)neither faction will come in with a solid majority. My understanding is that the President calls on one side or the other to try to form a Parliamentary majority, and could arguably start with Netanyahu on the claim that his coalition would be more stable.
rpannier
(24,333 posts)lewebley3
(3,412 posts)Bibi, has been wrong, all along on foreign policy, Obama has got
right, and we trust Obama motives, I dont' trust Bibi or the GOP
after the speech stunt
calimary
(81,437 posts)Glad you're here! I've never trusted the GOP, but now we know they're TRAITORS!!!!! Thank you, New York Daily News! I am relishing this!
And as for bibi-baby, as a mother, I hate to see bad behavior rewarded - or reinforced. That conniving back-stabbing showboating stunt last week very nicely stuck a shiv in our President's back, stuck another one in our Secretary of State's back, and conspired with the party that's NOT in the White House to use OUR Congress chambers as a stage for his own political self-aggrandizement. This is how you treat a friend, bibi?
If he fails in his reelection bid then it's a good lesson. Which I'd bet he would not learn. I'd be most interested to see what kind of excuse he'd make, on which (or on whom) to blame his next failure.
For netanyahu, I've got only two words: Screw You. Or three words: Screw You, Pal. I wouldn't have watched that speech if he'd paid me.
Oh, and btw - as to my earlier point...
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Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Neither Zipper nor Hair are great improvements
MisterP
(23,730 posts)it's Poisson-perfect
plus having 90% of his money (and voters, as whispered) come from the US
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)And the chance to form a government with other parties. Being a multi-party parliamentary system, if no party wins an outright majority, the party with the most seats gets to try and form a government with other parties.
Elections in Israel January 2013
January 23: The Central Election Committee has released the final results of the elections, and the allocation of seats in the 19th Knesset:
Likud Beiteinu - 31 (23.32%)
Yesh Atid - 19 (14.32%)
Labor - 15 (11.39%)
Habayit Hayehudi - 12 (9.12%)
Shas - 11 (8.75%)
United Torah Judaism - 7 (5.17%)
Hatnuah - 6 (4.99%)
Meretz - 6 (4.54%)
United Arab List - Ta'al - 4 (3.65%)
Hadash - 4 (2.99%)
Balad - 3 (2.56%)
Kadima - 2 (2.10%)
According to the Central Election Committee, 67.79% of Israelis exercised their right to vote. Out of some 3.834 million votes cast, only about 40,000 were disqualified. Voter turnout was the highest since 1999.
At this time, The Zionist Union is Predicted to win 24 seats and Likud 21. If this happens, Herzog will have a chance to form a government by inviting other parties to work with the labor.
Hadash, a left wing communist party based consisting mostly of Israeli Arabs and other Israeli Arab parties are predicted to pick up seats. It appears that the left in Israel is gaining strength. We will see if that is true after the election.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)barbtries
(28,810 posts)that would be nice.
Caretha
(2,737 posts)That would shut up the damn 47 Republican traitorous warmongers....
Here's hoping they're next.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)and there's the big word "if". "If" the Zionist Union joins with Yesh Atid.
ybbor
(1,555 posts)Don't they realize that they doing so by criticizing Bibi?
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)for him, including bringing in the corruptible electronic voting machines.
father founding
(619 posts)Where do you think the GOP got them from ?
erronis
(15,328 posts)Perhaps poor mr. adelman would lend a few 100MM to bilbi. The kochsters could kick in too. Fux (murduch and ails) have some spare MM rattling around.
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)The arithmetic isnt even right. There are 120 seats in the Knesset. Obviously 56 isn't a majority. Yesh atid is currently aligned with netanyahu and will likely remain so.
The essential premise is right in that the netanyahu might lose power if yesh atid sided with the left and the Arabs. However what the article fails to note is that no Jewish party has ever formed a coalition with the Arabs in Israel's history. Even relying on Arabs to get a bill through the Knesset is strictly taboo.
karynnj
(59,504 posts)He kicked Lapid out of his government at the same time he kicked Livni out.
I read the Haaretz article and Salon misstated what they stated. They were speaking of how many MK might recommend each leader. (The reason it does not add to 120 is that Kahlon may not recommend either (and at any rate has not declared what side they are on.)
The Israeli media has been crazy - and that article was an example of that in the part where they spoke of coalitions.
Here's a link that seems to explain things well -- if it is accurate. http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-election-2015/1.646418
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)and as such are still part of the government, even though Lapid got booted out as finance minister.
sabbat hunter
(6,834 posts)is a caretaker one. once elections are declared, everything pretty much freezes with the coalitions.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)We need a change, too. Want this clown to give up the speaker's mallet, too.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)the One-Two punch seems to have failed in more that one area.
It's like they are trying to beat up Obama with a feather...from a dove.
Mosby
(16,340 posts)bobGandolf
(871 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)He can run as the Republican nominee in 2016
wolfie001
(2,264 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)and there is a GIANT iceberg about to sink him.
Karma is a bee-yotch!
Liberal Lantern
(22 posts)I can't think of anything that would make me happier for what he was allowed to do because of the GOP Congress.
spanone
(135,861 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,209 posts)Initech
(100,099 posts)herding cats
(19,566 posts)Netanyahu's Likud party want war with Iran, and too many of the politicians in the U.S. agree with him on the matter. It's only a matter of time before they prevail. One less warmongering political party is always a good.
randome
(34,845 posts)Because the GOP will get the blame.
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Blue Owl
(50,487 posts)bvf
(6,604 posts)arikara
(5,562 posts)Make it so. The world needs to see the end of that prick, along with Canada's Stephen Harper and many other lovers of mr. Bebe.
FSogol
(45,520 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)That smug asshole cannot go soon enough.
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)Chakaconcarne
(2,460 posts)If so, well............
iandhr
(6,852 posts)Is one of the founding families of Israel. A Israeli news paper said they were the Israeli Kennedy's Just for a side note
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)HoosierCowboy
(561 posts)"Likud"
sabbat hunter
(6,834 posts)is not enough, you need 61 to form a government.