Netanyahu's third term win. A very sad day both for I/P and the world.

[mylye2222]

Netanyahu is nothing to me but an Israeli duplicata of GWB and his creepy team of fanatics and criminal.
And I really wonder how he did "won " his third tenure as he was given defeatend since long. Yestuday first exit polls gave the center leftys winner. And then suddendly Bibi clails victory? It really sounds an Israeli remake of WH 2000.... I have really hight doubts since Bibi is knows for his far right inclinations and his corruption. Dont you DUers?

[Judi Lynn]

1. Very sad. It's nothing to celebrate, anywhere.

Was hoping for something far better, like you.

[AtomicKitten]

2. Very disappointed with the result.

You're right; the exit polling didn't match the polling taken the day before the election.

Bibi is such a POS, I put nothing past him.

[Ilsa]

3. I don't know how they count their votes,

But I wouldn't be surprised if he borrowed gop tactics to rig the damn thing.

[onenote]

5. it's not that hard to find out how they count their votes

Google is your friend.

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-to-vote-in-israel-a-first-time-guide/

[fadedrose]

12. Letterman said something about

Florida sending their voting machines to Israel...hmmmm..

[mylye2222]

39. Mmh... Maybe they also recycled

the Ohio 2004 Diebold ones too.....

[geek tragedy]

4. He won because Israel is a racist, rightwing country

that decided to re-elect him only when he promised a more racist, rightwing government going forward.

This is what Israel is.

[LeftishBrit]

7. That's what *some* of Israel is

Just as some of America is RW teabaggers, and some of Britain is Daily Mail- and Sun-reading mean-spirited neo-Thatcherite xenophobes, and too often they win.

But there are many in Israel who will be very sad at the result; unfortunately not quite enough at present.

[geek tragedy]

10. Never has such explicit racism been rewarded at the national level

in the US.

Israel is where Alabama was in the 1950's. Like Alabama then, it is not capable of reforming itself without being strong-armed by outsiders.


Israel has chosen the one-state solution. So, now it's apartheid which at some point in a few generations will lead to the dissolution of the Jewish state.

And given what Israel has become, that day should come sooner rather than later.

Liberal Israelis are more than welcome here in New York, now that they have lost the fight for the country's soil to the settlers and bigots and fascists.

[LeftishBrit]

30. The national government allowed Jim Crow for nearly 100 years after slavery ended, even if not all

of America practiced it. So there are many parallels. There are huge differences between different parts of Israel as well.

I think Israel still has a window of opportunity, to avoid the one-state non-solution (apartheid/ civil war/ survival as another Lebanon at best, not surviving at all at worst). But it can't wait 100 years, perhaps not 10.

Netanyahu is a dangerous leader; and he is influenced by even worse people.

Most depressing. The Israeli left and centre now face the fight of their lives.

[MohRokTah]

15. No, that is what *MOST* of Israel is.

The majority elected a fascist regime,

Fuck Israel for all time now.

I no longer support the state of Israel. Not one bit. Let them stand alone in the world.

[fadedrose]

14. The last place you would think of when you hear the term,

ethnic cleansing.

If they don't allow for two states, the only other choice BiBi gives is to rid the country of Palestinians, who have also been there for millenniums. I can't believe that most Jews agree with him enough to vote for him, but their problem is complicated because of their fear of Iran and their desire for 2 states to have that peace so long desired... what to do, what to do?

Hope he doesn't come back for another visit.

I feel sorry for the residents of Israel, both peace-loving Jewish and Arab.

[RKP5637]

16. He's not a solutions leader, but rather an agitator. n/t

[geek tragedy]

28. The Israelis don't want a Palestinian state

They desperately want to prevent one. They just say they favor one to ingratiate themselves to the world community.

Their solution is to put the Palestinians in open air prisons.

[B Calm]

25. I posted that a few years ago and a jury hid my post.

Glad to see people are waking up.

[Agony]

6. Israel can no longer "claim" to want a two state solution

the mask has slipped…
http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-election-2015/1.647212

[LeftishBrit]

8. Very depressing

[Helen Borg]

9. I predict a sharp increase in anti-semitism around the world.

People conflate things. Looks pretty bad. Very unfortunate.

[RKP5637]

20. I was just thinking the same. He casts a very bad view on Israel and I think that will

stoke anti-semitism which is already on the rise. I was hoping he would be out of office, now it looks like more of the same or worse. I find it a very sad day for Israel. And now he has his buddies in US congress. I often wonder where that is going to lead.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

33. Bibi and his band of thugs thrive on anti-Semitism.

That's the only way they exist.

No threat, real or perceived; no raison d'etre.

[fadedrose]

11. I was so depressed last night when I heard

that Netanyahu was announcing his victory.

Can't stand that guy.

In spite of all, Obama seems happier lately than he has ever been. I think he's glad his term is winding down. Michele must be singing and dancing, and the girls are already making plans for the move.

[TBF]

23. I wouldn't blame Obama at all

for that attitude. He's a little conservative for me but I think at heart he is an ok guy. And he has been treated like absolute crap in his position. I wouldn't blame him at all for wanting to get the heck out of there.

[madokie]

13. I'm not sure this can't be seen as anything but good

you know that bibi will keep up his mean streak and become bolder in the process up to a point that there will be an uprising, if not by the Israeli themselves then by other countries to the atrocities that nutherinyahu brings to the table and he finally will be neutered for good. He'll keep pushing you can bet on that and he will see his winning due to his latest racist push so he'll be emboldened to continue. In fact if history shows us anything about him it shows us he is a person suffering from little mans syndrome who is not very intelligent. Bluster yes, mean yes, smart no. IMO

[Fantastic Anarchist]

35. I'm betting he over-reaches big time.

Like he tends to do.

[blackspade]

17. How can Israelis be this stupid?

And reelect a fascist like Bibi?

I guess they like the fear and war.

[MohRokTah]

19. They hate America , too.

Time to let them stand completely alone in the world.

Cut them off.

[RKP5637]

21. True, but many also said the same of Bush, how stupid can Americans be to elect Bush twice.

Stupidity has no borders. They have fools there similar to the fools here IMO.

[blackspade]

26. You got the reference!

I feel for sane people there.
They are the ones that will pay the price.

[RKP5637]

27. Yep, it's very sad! I was hoping for better times, now, we'll see the SOS or worse IMO. n/t

[LeftishBrit]

31. True (though you really only elected him once); and how stupid could Brits be to elect Thatcher

THREE times?

As Churchill once said, democracy is the worst possible system, except for all the others.

[RKP5637]

32. I often find the collective stupidity frightening and amazing. So much of it is a total WTF. n/t

[Enthusiast]

18. This result is heart breaking.

I believe at this moment in history the miscreants can get any result they want in an election—worldwide.

Wasn't there a practice during the Reagan years to interfere in elections, especially in Central and South American to get corporate favorable governments in place?

[RKP5637]

24. There's a lot of sh** that goes on behind the scenes few of us will ever be privy too. I do

question all elections anymore. IMO, it's just far too easy to rig elections, even worldwide.

[TBF]

22. Old white guys and their War-Mongering

I swear if we could just ship these two off to another planet somewhere and let them fight each other we'd be in better shape. Lots of love to both the Israeli and Palestinian people - the normal average people - who just want to work, study, and hang out with their friends/families. It is so, so sad that a deal cannot be brokered to get some relief. No one is winning currently and it is heart breaking.

[Zoonart]

29. Pay Attention!

Pay attention to what just happened in Israel. The 2016 election will be about abject racism and fear-mongering because... it wins.

We progressives and liberals have to get out of our comfy chairs and hit the streets. Posting witty sarcastic threads and signing e-petitions is not going to cut it. Passivity is dead and if we don't learn... we may be dead too, both as an ideology and an actuality.

[Bettie]

34. Given his anger at Arab Israeli citizens voting

I wonder how long it will be before he takes action to strip them of their citizenship and expel them from "his" country.

He seems to have carte blanche to do what he pleases.

[ann---]

37. As soon as

the U.S. hands him the money.

[Bettie]

38. And they will

Congress will give him whatever he demands.

[ann---]

36. No more

sympathy from me for Israel. Nuttyahoo has made it clear what he thinks of the Palestinians.
There will never be peace there as long as he is in power.

No one can blame the Palestinians for fighting for survival now.