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    Default Israel Election Results: Trump Just Lost His Wall — the One He Called Bibi Netanyahu

    Worst of all, from Trump’s perspective, Netanyahu’s resort to full-throated racism backfired badly — increasing by a quantum leap the participation in the electoral process of the very Arab citizens whom the prime minister had worked so hard to demonize, marginalize and, he hoped, alienate into a paralyzing despair.

    Netanyahu’s campaign backfired so severely, and Israeli Arab voting surged so strongly, that the leader of the largely Arab Joint List, Ayman Odeh, was catapulted overnight into the front-runner for the very mainstream position of leader of the Israeli opposition in the Knesset.


    In a bizarre game of chicken and egg, Trump himself hastened the fall of the Bibi Wall. The president’s failure to provide a grand gesture in support of the Netanyahu campaign was widely noted in Israel, as were a succession of humiliations suffered by Netanyahu at Trump’s hands. Frantic phone calls from Jerusalem to the White House went unanswered. Trump summarily, even nastily, fired Bibi soulmate John Bolton, and the president even flirted with the prospect of direct talks with Iranian leaders.


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    But for Trump, all this may pale before Netanyahu’s worst fear. It is the specter of revolt within his own party, and with it the loss of the primary barrier separating the strongman leader and the prospect of criminal prosecution.

    The tottering of the Bibi Wall in Israel has been accompanied by an eerie and uncustomary silence from most Likud leaders — waiting, in fact, to see which way the wall will eventually fall.

    What Bibi knows is exactly what Trump, in his heart of hearts, must truly fear. The look of a different wall from the inside. The prison wall.
    “If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”

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    The election is too close to call.

    No matter who is elected, Israel will be protected.

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    And we know that Netanyahu won’t be able to garner the support of 61 MKs to avoid prosecution.
    “Today’s elections results are a resounding NO to an immunity government for PM Netanyahu. This is very good news for Israel’s democracy, as immunity for a sitting PM would have created a perverse incentive to stay in power forever to avoid jail. Beyond that, little else is known,” tweets former MK Einat Wilf.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    The election is too close to call.

    No matter who is elected, Israel will be protected.
    nope nathan yahoo is out , it is not like our presidential elections goy boi
    “If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    But for Trump, all this may pale before Netanyahu’s worst fear. It is the specter of revolt within his own party, and with it the loss of the primary barrier separating the strongman leader and the prospect of criminal prosecution.

    The tottering of the Bibi Wall in Israel has been accompanied by an eerie and uncustomary silence from most Likud leaders — waiting, in fact, to see which way the wall will eventually fall.

    What Bibi knows is exactly what Trump, in his heart of hearts, must truly fear. The look of a different wall from the inside. The prison wall.

    Trump is fucked 6 ways from Sunday all around

    hated by 60% of Americans, the laughing stock of the world and disrespected by every NATO member, the Pentagon telling him to go fuck himself over this 'wall' bullshit

    and speaking of the Pentagon, I seriously doubt they'd obey an order to attack Iran or any other country w/o Congressional approval (that's constitutional law), nothing he can do about that except call up the same troops laughing at him lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    nope nathan yahoo is out , it is not like our presidential elections goy boi
    No coalition government has been formed.

    Israel will be protected no matter who controls the government.

    Take a hike, pende*o.

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    “Liberman isn’t just the winner of the elections, he’s the one who will determine the makeup of the next government,” writes Sima Kadmon in Yedioth.
    “His secular agenda and iconoclastic straight talk — delivered in a slow, Russian-accented monotone — has made him an unlikely savior for those tired of Netanyahu’s corruption-tainted, decade-long grip on power. That’s despite the fact that Lieberman survived a lengthy corruption scandal himself,” notes the AP.
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    Netanyahu is the greatest enemy 'Israel' has ever had. Like Johnson here, he doesn't give a bugger for anyone but himself.

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    Lieberman is a fascist and Gantz is an alleged war criminal. Even after Bibi is jailed- hopefully- Izrael has a grim future.
    " First they came for the journalists...
    We don't know what happened after that . "

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    No coalition government has been formed.

    Israel will be protected no matter who controls the government.

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    We know who lost: Netanyahu does not have enough votes to form a coalition. But we don’t quite know who won. It is hard to see how Gantz forms a coalition. There is a third option that is becoming more realistic as the numbers get in: A Likud PM other than Netanyahu.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    No coalition government has been formed.

    Israel will be protected no matter who controls the government.
    Really. The united Arab parties came third, we are told.

    Should Palestine absorb Izrael at some future point the territory could revert to being called Palestine.
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    Bibi still has legal problems to face. He is exactly like Trump.

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    Israel will be protected.

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