Israelis are understandably not thrilled with the Iran deal

[karynnj]

116. No one here has said that the Iranian government is good - as to Netanyahu I take him at his word

All one has to do is link to all the right wing pandering comments he made to steal votes from Bennett's party (the far right - mostly settlers' party) so that he could beat the number expected for Herzog. The comments we are now all suppose to think meant nothing - even if some are a better match to his actions than his new "corrected words".

What you ignore is that even before the election called by Netanyahu, there was a majority of right and right/center Knesset ministers. Netanyahu did NOT increase that majority - he just shifted more to Likud to insure that he would be the one forming the government. What the election may have done is made it clearer that Israel does not have the politics it had back in the 60s!

What those comments have done is made more apparent the real conflict between"liberal"and "Zionism" in liberal Zionism. It has a problem if Israel keeps all the land -- and Netanyahu's comments on settlements bothered me as much as his comment that a two state solution could not be achieved now. He ignores that if not now, and the settlements continue to expand - there will NEVER be a possibility of 2 states.

One thing I noticed in reading of the elections, is that the JEWISH settlers in the West Bank had the ability to vote in Israel. Yet, as we know, the Palestinians there can't. This has gone on for almost 50 years.

It really does come down to an Israeli choice. As people have said for decades they have to choose 2 of these three things - being democratic, being Jewish, and having all the land.