Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu pauses during a meeting with U.S. Senator Joe Liberman, not seen, in Jerusalem Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009. Israel's outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called on hard-line Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new government quickly as coalition bargaining shifted into high gear Sunday. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
And if the look ain't enough for you, consider this:
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."
Where is it coming from now, Israel?
Related: Israeli Election Results: Likudima Wins!
"Netanyahu gets key ally for Israeli post; Set to meet Peres today Urged to form unity coalition" by Ashraf Khalil, Los Angeles Times | February 20, 2009
JERUSALEM - Ultra-nationalist politician Avigdor Lieberman endorsed Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu for the Israeli prime minister's post yesterday, putting the conservative opposition leader in the driver's seat to form a governing coalition.
How come the Zionist-controlled MSM never calls them NaZionists or fascists or simply Zionists? The obfuscating cover-up continues!
Related: The Israeli Election: NaZionist Kingmaker
Lieberman, who has assumed a de facto kingmaker's role due to his party's third-place finish in recent parliamentary elections, threw his support behind Netanyahu after meeting with President Shimon Peres, who ultimately must decide whether to ask Netanyahu or moderate Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to form a government. Lieberman, whose Israel Is Our Home Party captured 15 of 120 seats in Parliament, urged Netanyahu to form a broad unity government that included Likud, which won 27 seats, and Livni's Kadima, which won 28 seats. Livni quickly replied that she would not serve in a "right-wing extremist government under Likud."
Who cares about bullcrap Israeli fooleys?
Yesterday's developments increased the likelihood that Netanyahu will run the government with a narrow right-wing coalition that observers predict would encourage the controversial growth of settlements in the occupied West Bank and clash with the Obama administration over the pace and scope of peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
Nah! Obama been silent on that, so.... Israel Bitch-Slaps Obama With West Bank Land Seizure
A Netanyahu/Lieberman-led government would be "a bad combination for America's interests," Daniel Kurtzer, a former US ambassador to Israel and Egypt, said at a Georgetown University panel discussion this week. "It would be much more difficult for the right wing, even with determined American leadership, to advance the peace process."
Peres has been meeting with party leaders all week and could announce his decision on forming the government as soon as today. Whomever he chooses will have 42 days to assemble a coalition that receives 61 votes of approval in the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament....
Theoretically, a Netanyahu/Livni/Lieberman government could find common ground on domestic and social issues. All are secularists, particularly Lieberman, whose mostly Russian immigrant support base wants to see civil marriage instituted in the Jewish state.
All three have a working history with Likud dating to Netanyahu's previous term as prime minister in the mid-1990s. Lieberman was his chief of staff and helped Livni land her first high-level government job.
Yeah, as a MOSSAD AGENT!! And see the INCESTUAL NATURE of the PARTIES as they PREACH DIFFERENCES? Just more s*** political fooleys for you, 'murka!
Lieberman and Livni remain on good personal terms although neither has overly warm relations with Netanyahu.... Lieberman technically supports the idea of a Palestinian state, but is lukewarm on the current process; he recently courted accusations of racism by advocating that Israel's 1.4 million Arab citizens be forced to take a loyalty oath.
Not only that, he has advocated ETHNIC CLEANSING! Strange how the jewish MSM leaves that out, huh?
While Lieberman said his endorsement of a Likud-led government was dependent on a willingness to include Kadima, he also sided with Netanyahu in saying Livni would have to give up her main demand of rotating the top post in order to join. Referring to Netanyahu by his nickname, he said, "Bibi must get used to the fact that this will be a broad government and not a narrow one, and Tzipi will have to get used to the fact that there is no rotation."
Livni and her lieutenants quickly rejected the notion of serving as an unequal partner in a Likud-led government....
Update:
Israeli troops kill two Gazans
Israeli troops have killed two Palestinian men in the village of Juhr al-Dik southeast of Gaza City, Palestinian medical sources say.
The two men were killed by Israeli shelling and gunfire in the village, according to Muawiya Hassanein, the head of Gaza emergency services, who identified the men as resistance fighters, AFP reported.
Israel continues to hit targets in the Palestinian sliver on a regular basis after it announced a so-called "unilateral ceasefire" on January 18 which helped Tel Aviv divert media attention away from its three-week offensive into the long blockaded region. The military operation killed at least 1,330 Palestinians and wounded 5,450 others...."
See any of that in here?
"Peres asks Likud leader to form coalition; Move follows inconclusive Israeli elections" by Linda Gradstein, Washington Post | February 21, 2009
JERUSALEM - Ten days after inconclusive national elections, Israeli President Shimon Peres formally asked Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday to form the next government.... A majority of parliament members said they supported Netanyahu for prime minister....
Several of the far-right parties in the government have already said they would join a Likud-led coalition. But they are demanding that Netanyahu expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank, a move that would put the new Israeli government on a collision course with the Obama administration. And the smaller parties disagree among themselves on religious and other issues.
Netanyahu has six weeks to form a coalition, by either overcoming those divisions or persuading Livni and the head of the Labor Party, Ehud Barak, to join him in a broad unity government. A poll published in the Jerusalem Post newspaper this week found two-thirds of the Israeli public support a broad national unity government.
"Let's unite to secure the future of the state of Israel," Netanyahu said, addressing Livni and Barak, after meeting with Peres yesterday. "I ask to meet with you first to discuss a broad national unity government."
But at least for now, both Barak and Livni say they will go into opposition.... If Netanyahu is unable to persuade Livni to join his government, he will turn to a series of smaller parties that have already said they will be part of his coalition. The largest of these, Yisrael Beitenu, is headed by Russian-born Avigdor Lieberman and won 15 seats in the elections, edging out the center-left Labor party. Yisrael Beitenu - Hebrew for "Israel Our Home" - is widely supported by Israel's Russian immigrant population, which includes an estimated 300,000 people who are not legally Jewish according to Orthodox Jewish law.
He's a MAFIA DON is what he is!!!
The party wants a law permitting civil marriage and divorce in Israel, which currently allows only religious marriage and divorce proceedings. Lieberman has also sparked controversy in Israel with his support of a loyalty oath that Arab citizens of Israel would be forced to take to maintain their citizenship.
Lieberman's call for civil marriage is anathema to another of Netanyahu's expected coalition partners, the ultra-Orthodox Shas party. Shas spokesmen have said they would not stay in any government that supports civil marriage. Israeli analysts say Netanyahu is likely to form a right-wing government but continue making overtures to Livni.
"Netanyahu has made it perfectly clear that a narrow right-wing government is not the government he wants," said Joseph Alpher, the co-editor of a joint Israeli-Palestinian website, www.bitterlemons.org, and the former head of a prestigious think tank in Israel.PFFFFFFFTT! Where's that salt shaker?
"The question is how strong is Netanyahu's distaste for a right-wing government and to what extent will that lead him to make more concessions to Livni?"
ANY ISRAELI GOVERNMENT is BY DEFINITION a RIGHT-WING GOVERNMENT!
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"Netanyahu, Livni meeting ends without agreement" by Aron Heller, Associated Press Writer | February 22, 2009
JERUSALEM --Israel's hard-line prime minister designate, Benjamin Netanyahu, promised Sunday to work with the United States to promote peace in the region as he sought to forge a moderate government with his chief rival -- but did not reach a deal....
Then END the WAR CRIMINAL SIEGE and STOP KILLING PALESTINIANS!!!!
Visiting U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman said a Netanyahu-led government -- even one formed with a right-leaning alliance -- would enjoy good relations with Washington....
No place like home, 'eh, Joe?
That's because we are ZIONIST-OCCUPIED TERRITORY over here!
Ehud Olmert, Israel's outgoing prime minister, continues in a caretaker role until Netanyahu can form a new ruling coalition.
One wonders if LAME-DUCK OLMERT will get the call to BOMB IRAN, 'eh?
