Incredible! (Israeli election)

The numbers are still in flux and changing. There’s a few left wing parties that may change from being above or below the threshold to get into parliament based on the absentee ballots (military, police, prison, etc) that weren’t counted yet. Such a change will change the number of seats for all other parties.

CA: Those percentages are enough to change whether a party is in or out.

1, The paper ballots usually favor Likud, and especially disfavor the Arab parties and the Chareidi parties – since most of them are cast by soldiers.

2. If Balad has allied it self with another Arab party, and if Meretz had allied itself with another far-left party (e.g. Labor, which barely passed the threshold), the result would probably have been another stalemate.

3. While the Chareidi parties have options other than supporting Likud (and have some bargaining power with Netanyahu), the “Religious Zionist” party does not, so if Netanyahu rejects any of their demands they have no choice but to accept. This is because the left wing does not have to be viciously anti-Chareidi (and in the past, the Labor party tried to avoid alienating the Chareidi), whereas the “Religious Zionists” demands (such as “transfer”,i.e., “ethnic cleansing” of Arabs) are intolerable to the groups that will now be in opposition.

“The most annoying thing, is the Jewish in name only American Liberal Jews thinking they know what’s better for Israel, than Israelis.”

don’t let a silly talking point annoy you.

Israelis don’t agree on what is best for Israel .
There was just an election. although Netanyahu and the “right” have a clear majority.

LEft/liberal parties got some votes too I think. The second largest party (Yesh Atid) for example. Even Meretz that didnt cross the threshold got over 100,000 votes.

So When Liberal Jews oppose Netanyahu it is silly to say they know better than “Israelis” They think they know better than some and agree with others.

Lapid conceded and Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-religious bloc won.

BarryLS1: Israel already deports (or incarcerates) terrorists. That is established party. What the Religious Zionism party is talking about, is getting rid of all Arabs, or at least those Arabs who don’t support the zionists (they seem unclear on the matter, though it appears that a very considerable percentage of Israeli Arabs prefer to be living under zionist rather than Palestinian or Islamic rule). To “remove” someone from a country is rarely easy. Typically one “removes” them by putting them in a truck, or railway car or ship, and dumping them somewhere (e.g. the British use of coffin ships to get rid of rebellious Celts, the German use of railcars to get rid of us, etc.). Sometimes you can convince them to go peacefully, albeit at gunpoint (e.g. the American’s “trail of tears”). One should note that all these techniques of “removing” undesirable ethnic groups from one’s country, are now considered to be crimes against humanity, which along with terrorism, enslavement and piracy get you the legal status as “Hostis humani generis”.

Barry

You say “On the contrary”

but nothing you wrote is contrary to what I said .

In a nutshell: “Left/liberal parties got some votes too I think.” Am I mistaken in that assessment?