Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged the bruised winner of Israel's election on Tuesday, with his hawkish bloc unexpectedly losing ground to resurgent center-left challengers, exit polls showed.

They suggested the Israeli leader's Likud party, yoked with the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu group, would still be the biggest bloc in the 120-member assembly with 31 of the 120 seats, 11 fewer than the 42 they had in the previous parliament.

If the exit polls compiled by three Israeli television channels prove correct, Netanyahu would be on course to secure a third term in office, perhaps leading a hardline coalition that would promote Jewish settlement on occupied land.

But his weakened showing in an election he himself called earlier than necessary could complicate the struggle to forge an alliance with a stable majority in parliament.

The projections showed right-wing parties with a combined strength of 61-62 seats against 58-59 for the center-left.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/22/us-israel-election-idUSBRE90K0FP20130122

Fuckin' A-1.

FO.  Fucking do it.

Now that the election is over, Israel will annex the West Bank, grant citizenship to about 50K Arab-Israelis, and expel the rest.

Additionally, the world-wide media will no longer refer to The Palastinian Authority, but to The Palestinian State as they attempt to legitimize a two-state future.

You heard it here first

Oh, Hell Yes!  

interesting .....

Indeed.

I was trying to wait for the FOX to show it but this stupid ass shooting has annoyed me to the point I started watching Cspan.........  Have ya'll watched these fuckers we send to cap hill to do our bidding?  They're fucking morons.......

It kinda seems like reuters doesn't like anyone right of stalin.  I dunno know could just be me.

ETA changed left to right

Do you mean right of Stalin?
 

Yes I do.

How come the good guys in Israel can win THEIR elections?



The Israelis are quite possibly bigger targets of the left than conservatives are.




 

I'll bet Obama is not a happy about this.

Because THEIR FSA is ultra-orthodox.

Their FSA, believe it or not, to a large degree does not even live in Israel.

They are ultra-orthodox, and they live in Brooklyn and Crown Heights, and Monsey, NY and a few othere enclaves.  They are US citizens who hold Israeli passports, as dual citizenship is OK under Israeli law.

Come election time, the Lubavitchers, and the rest of them, charter flights for the sole purpose of voting in Israeli elections.  Tens of thousands of them, every time.

They had significant influence in Israeli politics for decades, and still do, but it is waning.  

Incessant terrorism combined with a left always gibbering about "peace".