Am I the only one who thinks Bibi stole the election?

[Spazito]

35. Yes, that's exactly what he did...

In essence, he promised the rabid right voters he would do what their parties would do and the rabid right wing voters, seeing him make the same commitments as the parties they usually support, switched their vote. Party loyalty in Israel is not huge in the big picture and Netanyahu used that lack of party loyalty to his benefit.

He still has to find enough seats, 31 or 32, to form a coalition government, if he finds them only among the rabid right wing then any move to soften the commitments he made in the last few days of the election could cause his newly formed coalition to fall with Israel being back into another election.

If Netanyahu doesn't try to backtrack from his appalling promises, from his racist view, the global community, a community Netanyahu promised he would seek a two state solution, may not offer the same support to Israel as they did previously.

Going rabid right may have served him well in the very short term but may well be very costly to him and Israel in the long term, imo.