YES! Netanyahu Is Suddenly In REAL TROUBLE

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Thats what you get when you jump into bed with dirty, republican dogs......fleas!..........Bon Voyage!.......




"...As it happens, another twenty-four hours has only increased the signs that, with less than a week to go before the Israeli elections, Netanyahu is slipping and perhaps in real danger of being ousted as Prime Minister. As we noted last week, the initial polls after the Prime Minister's speech to Congress painted an equivocal picture: perhaps a very small bump of support but one that seemed to subside quickly and still leave the Zionist Camp/Labor Party with the slenderest of leads. But over the weekend something changed. Over the last three days a new raft of polls has been published which show ZC/Labor with a lead of between two and four seats over Likud. That is at the very outer range of the leads ZC/Labor has had. But the trend has not been this pronounced in the past or with a group of polls all seeming to agree on the same movement. What's more, Likud's numbers clearly seem to be dropping in absolute terms. There have also been press reports — supported by my own reporting — that internal polls from the two major parties show a bigger gap than the public polls.



There are also signs of erosion, though still limited, for the entire center-right bloc — not just Likud, but the allied parties from which it would build a natural coalition. So what happened? It may simply be the heightened and not uncommon volatility that comes in the last days of an election when the mass of voters begun to really focus on the decision. Or it may be a rapid string of events coming at once undermining Netanyahu's credibility on his signature issue: security. J.J. Goldberg runs through three of them here. In short, a smashing critique of his rule by a former chief of the Israeli foreign intelligence service, Mossad; a botched commercial which some core Likud supporters believed was comparing them to Hamas; and then a leaked document about negotiations with the Palestinians.



The last is the most interesting. A document surfaced purporting to show that Netanyahu had discussed a far-reaching settlement with the Palestinians which would approach the kind of deal real two-staters endorse — something far more than he has ever suggested a willingness to consider publicly. First his campaign denied its authenticity, then it denied its implications. Then his campaign took back his original endorsement (albeit an extremely hedged one) of the two-state principle. Then it un-took it back. Kind of. The whole drama allowed core supporters on the right to think he might have been willing to contemplate or even suggest what it is his party's raison d'etre to oppose and then centrist voters to see (conclusively) that in fact he is closing off any future possibility of a settlement with Palestinians on any terms. The whole flurry looked panicked and desperate, and in recent days he and his campaign and top supporters have moved on to an escalating series of claims about how unknown forces in America or worldwide are banding together with the press in Israel to topple him. Netanyahu is now openly saying that if things continue as they are, Herzog will be the next Prime Minister.



Of course, that is in large part to scare right-wing voters into showing up at the polls and not just voting, but voting for his party and not the smaller right-wing parties. He needs those votes for himself and not ideological allies so that he can jump back in front of Herzog. But a mix of polling, reporting from within Likud and the currently frantic nature of Netanyahu's campaign leave little doubt that they are generally afraid Netanyahu is about to be ousted as Prime Minister.







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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/yes-netanyahu-is-suddenly-in-real-trouble

[Thinkingabout]

1. Picture is great. Guess the fleas are causing lots of scratching.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Republicans in America will be sure to continue with some more Bibi boot licking and war drums to prop him up.

And Seldon Adelson will surely open up the casino coffers for more ad buys for Bibi...what a scam democracy has become in the this age of money equaling free speech.

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4. After the Iran letter and disastrous Congress invite...

their stock value might be tainted for a little while...

Lets see who steps out for Bibi...


Corn Fred?....

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3. Hopefully,...

it will spread and peak into a full blown irritated red rash in the raw by election day.

5 days to go.

[meow2u3]

10. Not even the fleas like Nut-n-yahoo

[Tom Ripley]

5. B'sha'ah tovah!

[TheKentuckian]

6. Good, Israel needs saner, less reactionary leadership

[blm]

7. RW hardliners in US and all over the world ARE THE PROBLEM - they all want WWIII

and they are trying to move all their countries to that position along with them.

[tridim]

8. And it is failing miserably.

For the first time in my lifetime.

It feels like the whole world (minus ISIL, AIPAC and the GOP) is fed up with the RW bullshit and wants it gone.

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9. "...US Weapons Exporters Lead World in War Profiteering..

".....New study finds booming business driven by 'an escalation of regional tensions in the Middle East and Asia Pacific'

U.S. weapons exporters lead the world in profits from the booming military arms and equipment business, driven by rising tensions and conflict around the world, according to a new report from London-based analysts.

The annual study by IHS Inc.—which looks at military markets in 65 nations, excluding small arms, munitions, and surveillance programs—finds that the United States is behind one-third of all equipment and weapons exports world-wide.

This is no small amount: in 2014, global "defense" trade surpassed $64.4 billion, the report finds.

"Defense trade rose by a landmark 13.4 percent over the past year," said Ben Moores, senior defense analyst at IHS Aerospace, Defense and Security, in a press statement. "This record figure has been driven by unparalleled demand from the emerging economies for military aircraft and an escalation of regional tensions in the Middle East and Asia Pacific."

The U.S., further, is the top profiteer from rising conflict across the Middle East, accounting for $8.4 billion in exports to this region in 2014, compared to $6 billion the previous year.

Meanwhile, U.S. allies in the expanding war against ISIS are boosting their weapons imports significantly.


http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/09/us-weapons-exporters-lead-world-war-profiteering

[mountain grammy]

13. Something we excel at.. We're number one!

[calimary]

16. Yeah. "American Exceptionalism."

[Enthusiast]

17. PLUS ONE, a whole bunch!

[heaven05]

11. good

should have stayed away from republicans, their dirt rubs off on people and their.....well never mind.

[mountain grammy]

12. I refuse to get my hopes up, but I will anyway..

Hoping the voters in Israel are wiser than American voters.

[EEO]

14. Why are conservatives such assholes?

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15. Maybe,

Neil deGrasse Tyson would like to tackle that Q on his next episode of 'Bozos'....

[Vinca]

18. Karma.

[LeftishBrit]

19. Hope so!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

20. Isaac Herzog/Labor will be a marginal improvement --

at best. Better in regards to Iran most likely, but not much better for Palestinians. Got this from JVP's FB page:

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/17436-the-zionist-unions-plan-for-a-palestinian-bantustan

[spanone]

21. ooh please, please, please.

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22. LOL!

At first glance, it looked like Boehner was biting Bibi's ear....

[AtomicKitten]

23. That would be an amazing slapdown of the hardliners.