It’s Bibi or elections again

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Just so you know how we got here: if not for Avigdor’s envy and hatred of Netanyahu, we would not be here.

Background:

To recall, Israel held general elections on April 9. Netanyahu and his Likud Party won a commanding mandate to form a governing coalition. Likud garnered 35 seats in Israel’s 120-member Knesset. Blue and White, the center-left party that competed against Likud, also won 35 seats, with slightly fewer votes. But overall, the center-right and right-wing parties won 55 percent of the vote, to the center-left and left’s 36 percent. The remainder of the vote went to Arab parties that traditionally have refused to join any governing coalition.

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Despite the right/center-right’s commanding electoral victory, two obstacles blocked Netanyahu from forming a coalition government and compelled him to call for new elections.

First, Avigdor Liberman, Netanyahu’s former defense minister and the head of the small Israel Beitenu party, refused to join the coalition. Liberman’s party won five seats in April and so gave Netanyahu’s coalition a potential majority of 65 seats out of 120. By refusing to join the coalition, Liberman prevented Netanyahu from forming a governing majority.

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Liberman insisted that his refusal to join Netanyahu’s government owed to his opposition to the ultra-Orthodox parties that form the core of the Likud’s natural coalition partners. But neither the general public nor the Israeli commentariat believed his claims. The two men have a thirty-year relationship that has known its ups and downs. Most Israelis believe that Liberman was motivated by hatred of Netanyahu.

Once it was clear that the election results gave Liberman the power to block Netanyahu from forming a government, Liberman was in a position to dictate his terms for joining the coalition. Netanyahu and the ultra-Orthodox parties were willing to accept his demands. The fact that Liberman still refused to make a deal demonstrated that his desire to destroy Netanyahu politically outweighed rational political calculations.

(More from Glick here)

Caroline Glick today on Facebook.

I need to point out a basic fact about the election results which the US media, in particular, is missing.

Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו did not lose and בני גנץ – Benny Gantz didn’t win. Gantz cannot form a government under any circumstances. He cannot build a majority coalition.

By forming a unified political bloc of 55 Knesset members with the Likud’s satellite parties, Netanyahu has created a situation where he is the only possible prime minister. Either the Blue and White Party — or one of its factions — joins him, or Amir Peretz and Orly Levy bring the Labor party in, or Israel goes to new elections. Those are the only options.

In other words, it’s either going to be Netanyahu or elections. It’s up to Gantz, and Peretz.

I’ll say more. The balance of power is still very much on the Right. The Right has 55 seats. The Left has 44. Liberman is nothing but a Bibi hater. And the Arab parties are so extreme that they cannot be considered for any governing coalition.

(Lest anyone be tempted by the Washington Post’s attempt to claim Israel is racist because Israelis don’t want to share power with the Arab parties, the fact is that there is not one Arab party that accepts Israel’s right to exist. There were Arab politicians elected yesterday that have written odes to terrorist murderers on the Facebook pages. Arab lawmakers were elected that have met with terror kingpins. Arab lawmakers routinely support the Palestinian war against Israel and express support for Hamas.
It is not racist for Israelis not to want Hamas supporters and champions of terrorist murderers in the Israeli government or receiving security briefings from the military and intelligence services. It is rational.

The deadlock in Israel is electoral, not ideological. Liberman’s defection from the Right has denied it a governing majority. But it is still very much the majority in Israel. And the vast majority of Jewish lawmakers in the Knesset support applying Israeli law over the Jordan Valley as Netanyahu suggested. A large majority (55-44) of Jewish lawmakers also support applying Israeli law to other parts of Judea and Samaria.

Netanyahu is the only person capable of forming a government. It remains to be seen if that will happen, but Gantz cannot form a government. And he is slowly coming to terms with this unalterable reality.

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Philip
Philip
4 years ago

So, did he win yet? Oy vey!

Citizen 1949
Citizen 1949
4 years ago

It appears Liberman suffers from NDS, (Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome) much like the TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) that liberals are afflicted with here in the US.

created4el
created4el
4 years ago
Reply to  Citizen 1949

In addition to the Left who suffer TDS, we also have RINOs (in one sense same as the Left but go by a different name) who also suffer TDS.

created4el
created4el
4 years ago
Reply to  Citizen 1949

In addition to the Left who suffer TDS, we also have RINOs (in one sense same as the Left but go by a different name) who also suffer TDS.

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
4 years ago

Either the Blue and White Party — or one of its factions — joins him, or Amir Peretz and Orly Levy bring the Labor party in, or Israel goes to new elections. Those are the only options.

I don’t understand why Glick implicitly rules out (by failing to address) the option of Bibi stepping aside in favor of another Likud leader.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Liberman is beginning to look like more and more like a jerk.. Because of him, this second election was needed.
He refused to side with Netanyahu for the first election because Orthodox Jews wanted out of mandatory IDF service and Netanyahu refused to give them that exemption. So Bibi was not able to form a government. He needed Liberman to do that. Maybe a THIRD election will be needed. Fraud will be an art if that happens. Each time there is an election it looks worse for Netanyahu.

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
4 years ago

There is a good reason why all the mudslimes voted for Gantz

Yeah, right. Ever hear of Joint List? Sheesh.

TD
TD
4 years ago

“… Most Israelis believe that Liberman was motivated by hatred of Netanyahu.”
How about Iran? how much hatred is Liberman motivated by that?

hate them more. take them out already.

TD
TD
4 years ago

“The remainder of the vote went to Arab parties that traditionally have refused to join any governing coalition.”
Why T.F. is there even a shit-hole voting block “that traditionally refuses to join any governing coalition”?

Then the SJW morons claim that Israel is an apartheid state. what load of Warrens!

SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
4 years ago

I like Pamela who likes Bibi.
I like Bibi.
Well, I like Israel then.
Everything else is much un-Isreal

freedomfrind
freedomfrind
4 years ago

Gantz will form a coalition by normalizing Israel’s Arab party despite its members being terror lovers and wanting Israel to disappear. He will normalize the Arab party to bring it into the coalition to form a government. Same as the way Clinton, Perez and Rabin normalized the terrorist Arafat.

Pelatiah Adams
Pelatiah Adams
4 years ago

Listening now to Pamela Geller on Breitbart’s Alec Marlow Show. Pam, WONDERFUL commentary! Thank you so much for your 18 years of service to the USA!!! You are truly one of my all time heroines, and I’m one of your biggest fans. A Mom from Georgia.

sandbox
sandbox
4 years ago

I respect Caroline Glick, but It’s inconceivable, as she asserts, that Moishe Yaalon or Gantz or Lieberman will allow joint list Arab Party into the government. And I doubt if Likud will push this latest vote off to yet another election.

Murielle
Murielle
4 years ago

Bibi!!!!

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

Regardless of the outcome the MSM will claim its a defeat for Trump.

Ban Islam
Ban Islam
4 years ago

Why would Israel allow their Arab enemies to live on their land, let alone allow them to have political parties which are openly committing treason against Israel?

People like Lieberman, who put their own ego before the safety of their nation are dangerous. He should be removed from office if possible.

jes sayen
jes sayen
4 years ago
Reply to  Ban Islam

They are as much Leftist Saboteurs / Nihilists as are
America’s Leftist Saboteurs and Nihilists, are they not?
Why would the Left encourage La Raza, the Reconquistas,
and the Astlans to take over the Southwest ?
And piss away trillions of workers tax money in the process.

Gabriel A. King
Gabriel A. King
4 years ago

And lets not forget all the VOTE FRAUD the Left always engages in. Including bussing in Muslims to vote. Bibi is too damn nice. I would have already killed all the Muslims and expanded Israel’s dominion over the entire eastern Mediterranean.

Pantalones
Pantalones
4 years ago

If Bibi goes That’s the end of Israel

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
4 years ago
Reply to  Pantalones

If Bibi goes That’s the end of Israel

Baloney! …. um, er, let me rephrase that …. and your rationale is?

I’m a great admirer of Bibi, but I don’t believe any single leader is indispensable in Israel today.

evangeline golding
evangeline golding
4 years ago
Reply to  Pantalones

Agreed.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

‘(Lest anyone be tempted by the Washington Post’s attempt to claim Israel
is racist because Israelis don’t want to share power with the Arab
parties, the fact is that there is not one Arab party that accepts
Israel’s right to exist.’
It’s long past time for Israel to stop caring what the degenerate, decadent, immoral atheists of the dying West want, think or do — let them rot in the islamic puppet states they’re creating right under their feet.

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