"Israeli polls project a victory by Netanyahu in close race; Hard-liners seen winning majority in parliament" by Matti Friedman, Associated Press | February 7, 2009
JERUSALEM - .... Polls showed voters clearly preferring hard-line parties, predicting Likud and its conservative allies would hold a solid majority in the 120-seat parliament. Such results would probably spell trouble for the US-led Israeli-Palestinian peace talks....
Then Israel deserves to burn!
Netanyahu, a vocal critic of current peace efforts, would become the next prime minister....
Today's winner?
On the day of the 9-11 attacks, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked what the attacks would mean for US-Israeli relations. His quick reply was:
"It's very good…….Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)."
"Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel"
"We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq," Ma'ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events "swung American public opinion in our favor."
So WHEN is the NEXT ISRAELI FALSE-FLAG, Bibi?
Netanyahu says.... he will try to jump-start the Palestinian economy while continuing Israel's military occupation indefinitely. Israel captured the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and east Jerusalem in the 1967 war. It withdrew from Gaza in 2005, and has annexed east Jerusalem, though that move has never been internationally recognized....
And the consequences are.... ?
Perhaps the most striking poll result indicated that Defense Minister Ehud Barak's moderate Labor Party, which long dominated Israeli politics, has been pushed out of third place by hard-liner Avigdor Lieberman and his Yisrael Beiteinu party.
The Haaretz poll showed Lieberman surging to 18 seats, compared with Labor's 14. That sets Lieberman up as a kingmaker, holding the crucial swing votes that the winner will need to form a government. Lieberman clearly leans toward Netanyahu.
Great. An ETHNIC-CLEANSING, GENOCIDAL NAZI is going to decide whose Israel's next leader. Good-bye, world!
Lieberman has centered his platform on attacking Israel's Arab citizens, demanding that they sign a loyalty oath or lose their right to vote or be elected.
You know, like what HITLER DID to the JEWS!!!!!!
"Political hawk stirs passions ahead of Israeli election; Polls show upstart's party in third place" by Richard Boudreaux, Los Angeles Times | February 9, 2009
KIRYAT MOTZKIN, Israel - Portraits of two Israeli-Arab politicians, defaced by red Hebrew letters reading, "Shame and Disgrace!" flashed on a giant video screen.
Jeering erupted in the hall, packed for a tough-talking candidate whose bid to lead Israel is propelled by unease about its biggest minority.
Of course, when a Muslim talks that way he's a "terrorist."
Avigdor Lieberman's attacks on Arabs have shaken up the race for Parliament and prime minister. He is drawing large, boisterous crowds of voters who delight in chanting his slogan - "Without loyalty, there is no citizenship" - and back his proposal for a mandatory loyalty oath to the Jewish state.
You know, like what Hitler made the Jews sign. And if Israelis truly support this piece of crap, then they deserve to burned alive!
His party, Yisrael Beitenu, or "Israel Is Our Home," has scored the biggest gains in the final week of the campaign and moved into third place, according to polls published Friday. Once a marginal provocateur on the extreme right, Lieberman could well be the pivotal player as Israel forms a multiparty governing coalition after tomorrow's election.
The outcome of the race will weigh on the Obama administration's options for pursuing Middle East peace. Because neither of the leading candidates could easily form a majority coalition without Lieberman, the next government probably will be more hawkish than the current one.
Translation: there will be NO PEACE and there WILL BE FURTHER GENOCIDE against Palestinians!
Lieberman's momentum, fueled by Israel's recent offensive in the Gaza Strip, has tightened the contest. It has drained support from front-runner Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the conservative opposition Likud party, narrowing his lead over Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni of the centrist Kadima party and making the race much closer than expected.
Yup, the MASS-MURDER of WOMEN and CHILDREN was for POLITICAL PURPOSES!!! How disgusting!
In an apparent effort to strengthen his right-wing credentials after the surge by Lieberman's party, Netanyahu declared yesterday that he would not give up the strategic Golan Heights for peace with Syria.
He wasn't going to anyway! Pffft!
Livni has not ruled out returning the Golan Heights. The third candidate for prime minister, Defense Minister Ehud Barak of Labor, offered the Syrians that deal when he headed the government in 2000.
The likelihood that Israel's next government will be much more hawkish than the current coalition is adding urgency to reach agreement on a long-term cease-fire for the Gaza Strip. Negotiations are continuing in Cairo. Leaders of both Israel and Hamas, which rules Gaza, want to reach agreement before the elections....
Lieberman helped Netanyahu become prime minister in 1996 and served as his chief of staff. When the government collapsed in 1999, he formed Yisrael Beitenu, won a seat in Parliament and has twice held Cabinet posts. His party's presence in Parliament grew from four seats in 1999 to 11 in the 2006 election. Alarmed by Lieberman's rise, many rivals denounce his rhetoric as racist and inflammatory.
Hey, he's true representative of the shit-stink state!
"This is a person who brings out the darkest urges of part of the Israeli public," said Shelly Yachimovich, a lawmaker from the left-leaning Labor Party. "His slogan endangers democracy. He is the moral red line we must not cross."
Too late, isn't it?
Yet the two leading candidates, wary of his clout, have refrained from criticizing him.
The Moldavan immigrant appears to be the chief beneficiary of nationalist passions aroused by the assault on Hamas militants. Israelis are deeply skeptical about peace prospects.
CUI BONO, and FUCK THEM!!!!
Netanyahu may have scored with voters by criticizing the decision by Livni and other senior ministers to halt the offensive in January with Hamas still in control of Gaza. But Lieberman struck a deeper chord of Jewish discontent by railing against Arab citizens who marched with Hamas banners during antiwar demonstrations in their towns in Israel.
That's DEMOCRACY, fascista!!
Isn't Israel the region's "only democracy (another lie, btw)?"
He also called for outlawing Arab parties whose leaders had condemned the Israeli offensive.
About one-fifth of Israel's 7 million citizens are Arabs, and a dozen serve in the 120-seat Parliament. Many of their leaders want to define Israel as a binational state, with more control by Arabs over public institutions and their own communities, rather than as a Jewish state.
Oh, I LOVE the IDEA: Memory Hole: Future Vision of Israel
Lieberman condemns such advocacy as treasonous.
Now I like it even more!
Lieberman has long proposed swapping areas of Israel that are heavily populated by Arab citizens for parts of the West Bank populated by Jewish settlers.
That's ETHNIC CLEANSING, folks!
His recent initiative, the theme of his campaign, calls for amending the citizenship law. It would require all citizens to sign an oath of loyalty to Israel as a Jewish state; accept its symbols, flag, and anthem, and commit to serving in a military or alternative service.
Oh, FUCK THAT, Sig Heil!!!
Anyone refusing to sign would lose citizenship rights, including the right to vote and to run for public office, but could remain in Israel on residence permits.
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Yup, NaZionist Iz-ray-HELL showing its TRUE FACE!
Update:
JERUSALEM - Israel's election has suddenly become too close to call, though hard-liners are expected to have a clear edge in the horse trading that is sure to follow today's vote.
The fractious coalition government that will probably emerge could complicate efforts to create a Palestinian state and pose big challenges for President Obama, who has made achieving Middle East peace a top priority.
The race pits former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who opposes giving up land in the name of peace, against Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, a centrist who hopes to become the country's first female leader in nearly 40 years.
For months, opinion polls have predicted a decisive victory by Netanyahu's Likud party. But new polls released during the weekend showed Livni's Kadima Party closing the gap....
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The winner will have to form a coalition with smaller parties. Netanyahu seems to be in a far better position, since his natural allies in the nationalist right wing of Israeli politics are all polling well.
They CAN'T SAY ZIONISTS, NaZionists, or ZioNazis, can they?
I suppose Hitler's party was just a "nationalist right wing of German politics," 'eh?
In particular, Netanyahu's former protege, Avigdor Lieberman, appears poised to make huge gains on a platform that calls for Israeli Arabs to swear loyalty to the state or lose citizenship. While Livni could still eke out a victory, it appears mathematically impossible for her to form a coalition without bringing in Lieberman or some other hard-line party. That would hinder her ability to pursue a peace agreement with the Palestinians, as she has promised to do.
Peace is a sham when you are talking to any NaZionist leader; they TALK PEACE and PLAN for WAR!!! That's what they were doing for the six months of "truce."
Still, polls have often been inaccurate in Israel. This time the pollsters' task is even more difficult, because turnout is expected to be low and a plethora of small parties could upset the whole equation. An estimated 15 to 20 percent of voters remain undecided.
Must be the only place in the world. Strange, seeing as Israeli companies are usually in charge of the machines.
The strength of the Israeli right reflects the times.
So did the Nazis!
Israel recently ended a three-week war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip to try to halt years of rocket attacks into southern Israel.
What would an AmeriKan MSM article be without some Zionist lies, 'eh?
The right criticized the government for failing to continue the invasion and end Hamas rule over Gaza.
You can't kill Hamas anymore than you can kill rock-and-roll.
"In the end, there won't be a choice but to topple the Hamas government in Gaza," Netanyahu told the French-language Guysen TV yesterday. "That's clear. The job wasn't completed in the latest operation and we will have to complete it later."
Yeah, WE KNOW that is the PLAN NO MATTER WHO WINS!
Throughout the campaign, Livni and Netanyahu have tried to outdo each other with their threats against Hamas.
MASS-MURDER in the NAME of POLITICS! How SHAMEFULLY DISGUSTING!
Leave it to the NaZionists!!!!
Livni, who has been the government's chief negotiator in talks with Hamas's rival, the moderate Palestinian government in the West Bank, wants to continue those negotiations, which would require a large West Bank withdrawal as part of an agreement.
I never take the nail-biting 'Zip seriously anymore.
She has repeatedly urged voters to choose "hope" over "fear."
Gee, where have we heard THAT before? WHO are the PALESTINIANS to look to for hope, huh, you NaZionist killer?
Netanyahu says any land handed to the Palestinians will be used to launch attacks against Israel. He points to the experience of Gaza, which was governed by Hamas after Israel unilaterally withdrew from the area in 2005.
Of course, the ISRAELI OCKDOWN and WAR CRIMINAL SEIGE had nothing to do with it!
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Btw, it is HAMAS' LEGAL RIGHT to respond to Israel's illegal and illegitimate occupation by ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!!!
That's BY INTERNATIONAL LAW, something Israel feels it doesn't have to adhere to at all! And they get away with it, which tells you what a Zionist tool the U.N. is!
