Thanks.
Unless Bibi and Gantz come to their senses and form some kind of unity government, I can see Israel going to yet another election. I’m not even sure I’ll vote again. I don’t like either one, and Bibi is facing possible criminal indictments in the very near future.
We’ll see what happens when Rubin gives the mandate to Gantz and it’s the Likud’s turn to blink. Bibi may want another election, but I don’t think his party does.
Plus, I want to see if any transcriptions of embarrassing calls between Bibi and Trump pop up. That would be awesome.
Oh my, YES. I’d drink a very large glass of arak in celebration.
May Eretz Yisrael have a sweet and largely Bibi-free 5780.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
Care to elaborate (I’m assuming that’s the knesset)?
The apartheid state of Israel’s dancing and feckless footwork is a delight to hear of.
So from a few days back …
Yom Tov y’all. What sort of offer will he be making you think?
So he’d have it be the three parties with no Arab or ultra religious parties. Rotate Bibi and Benny with Bibi first to step down when indicted.
Likely?
This would form a stable government.
This would have the support of the majority of Israelis voters.
This is clearly what is best for the country.
This is the only logical solution.
Therefore, it simply will not happen.
Also, nobody trusts Bibi to actually step down.
In the continuing saga of Israel trying to form a government:
- Netanyahu tried, and failed, to get the votes to form a government.
- Gantz, leader of the Blue and White party got his shot. Wednesday he announced that he had failed just before the deadline.
- We are now in a 21 day window for anybody who can scrape up the votes to try and form a government. If that fails there will be another election in March.
To throw an extra wrinkle in the mix, Netanyahu was indicted for fraud, breach of trust, and accepting bribes today.
The right-wing would have a better chance without Bibi. But he needs to win to keep out of jail and so is building a cult of personality.
Yes, obviously, but the right probably won’t get rid of him. He’s bolstered by an institutional culture of loyalty to the leader, no matter what. Consider, for instance, that in its 70 years of existence, the Likud has had exactly four party leaders, all of whom served until they resigned. And honestly, it’s been working for them - Labour, in comparison, has had 13 party leaders in the same period of time, in which it has withered away from total domination to near-irrelevance. The Likud does not challenge its leaders, period.
And yeah, he definitely has a cult of personality, not dissimilar to that of his American counterpart (“triggering the libs” is a thing here too, unfortunately, albeit not in so many words). Bibi is basically Trump’s self-aggrandizement mixed with Nixon’s intelligence, paranoia and resentment, stuffed into JFK’s composure and speaking ability. God help you if you ever elect a president like him.
I’m not sure that I’m going to vote this round. I’m terribly angry that we’ve gone thru 2 elections and have made no progress whatsoever. Not only that, I’m already getting those damned text messages about voting.
I would guess that’s backwards. After Begin (who had a very long tenure for other reasons, i.e. youth and stature as founder) the Likud hasn’t had to turn over their leaders because they’ve been relatively successful. The Labor Party has been steadily declining over the years, and that decline itself would naturally cause more turnover in the leadership role.
Who did you vote for last round, and where/why are you thinking of changing your vote? I’m genuinely curious.
Holding election round three seems to fall under the oft misattributed definition of insanity. I see no reason that that anyone would change their vote.
Maybe, but that doesn’t change the fact that I’ve seen plenty of Likudniks - including senior party members - say, literally, “The Likud does not depose its leader. We’re not Labour.”
Who’ve you been getting? First two rounds, I mostly got from Labour leftward ( probably because of where I live), but this time I haven’t gotten any yet. I don’t think that what’s left of the left has started revving its machinery yet.