Exit polls show Israeli election too close to call

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JERUSALEM -- Benjamin Netanyahu's conservative Likud Party was locked in a too-close-to-call race with its major opposition party in Israel's national elections Tuesday night, according to exit polls that suggested voters were willing to give their prime minister a fourth term despite a public feud with President Obama over Iran's nuclear program.

Exit polls of voters by two Israeli TV outlets showed his party tied with the center-left opposition Zionist Union party at 27 seats each in the next Knesset, or parliament. A third station showed Netanyahu narrowly ahead, 28-27.

The close results, if upheld when votes are counted, increase the likelihood a national unity government could be formed. Running in a strong third place in the exit polls with 13 seats was the United List, a coalition of small Arab paries.

Netanyahu declared the tight outcome to be a victory for his party. "Against all odds: a great victory for the Likud, a major victory for the national camp led by the Likud, a major victory for the people of Israel,'' he tweeted in Hebrew.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/03/17/israel-elections/24890227/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=206567

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1. Israel voted for apartheid, war, and income inequality

if these polls are right.

Time to wash our hands of the heirs to the legacy of Daniel Francois Malan.

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2. Agree. Journalists on Twitter were wondering if Netanyahu was pulling a

Bush by declaring himself the victor before all the votes were counted.

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3. The day will come sooner than later when there will be no liberal supporters of Israel in the

United States.

Liberal Israelis should seriously consider immigrating here. Zionist democracy is over.