Bye-bye Bibi - Polls show Netanyahu facing defeat in Israeli elections — Puppet Masters

The latest poll numbers coming out of Israel don't look good for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

With less than week for the pivotal Israeli elections, polls show Netanyahu's conservative Likud Party losing ground to the centrist Zionist Union Party after weeks of being in a dead heat.

Most surveys are predicting that the Zionist Union could win up to 24 seats in the Israeli parliament, compared to Likud's 21. If current trends continue, Israel will have a new prime minister come March 17th and would form a coalition government. Labour Party leader Issac Herzog would become prime minister for the first two years of the four-year term, then Zionist Union leader Tzipi Livni would take over the remaining two years.

Netanyahu is on the defensive, saying that a loss by Likud would put the country's security at risk.

"If the gap between the Likud and Labor continues to grow, a week from now Herzog and Livni will become the prime ministers of Israel in rotation, with the backing of the Arab parties," Netanyahu told the Jerusalem Post in a wide-ranging interview with the paper that is editorially friendly to the prime minister.

"That will cause such a monumental shift in policy that it is a danger, and anyone who wants to stop it has to vote Likud to narrow the gap. Yes, there will be pressures to withdraw to the (pre-) 1967 lines and divide Jerusalem. Yes, there will be pressures to relinquish our opposition to the Iranian (nuclear arms) deal. There is no privilege now to vote for other parties."

Reader Comments

Winston Smith · 2015-03-13T00:29:29Z

Adios, Bibi Bungholio!

Not that The Cancer Israel will suddenly change its tune or tactics towards its neighbors in any massive way, but one can only hope a more 'progressive' zionist leadership (an oxymoron, yes, I'm well aware) will take steps consonant with peace and stability in the ME, but don't hold your breath.

A zionist by any other name is still a zionist!

But I will allow my heart and spirit to drink deeply from the well of fantasy and believe for a minute that hope does exist for peace with the Palestinians if a change of administrations occurs with this election.

Indeed, hope does spring eternal.

Fingers, toes and eyes are now all crossed and waiting..........

gdpetti · 2015-03-13T03:31:15Z

Hmmm.

Isn't this the same pattern as usual? At least the same as last time? He had to bring in other parties for support then (now) as he will have to when he wins again, so same as usual, right?

canyonjammer · 2015-03-13T03:43:14Z

I don't suppose the Israeli are as accomplished at adjusting election results as we are here in the USA?

davidfxl · 2015-03-13T04:22:11Z

Rigged Elections

If the PTB want Bibi they will get him!

darrenobi · 2015-03-13T04:37:44Z

move along

nothing K-new here.?????????????????

scob102 · 2015-03-13T11:55:04Z

Hooray!

If Bibi does lose his position as Prime Minister then at least we can all rest, assured that Israel is a little less evil than before. He is up there with Bush and Blair, and their contemporary, for the award of most psychopathic 'democratic' leader the world has ever seen. But like I said in a previous post, we must pity him, that he has such little love for his fellow man, and although I know its not a nice thing to say, perhaps if we lovebombed these psychopaths, it might make them go insane, and allow them to come to terms with their evil behaviour, and pray for forgiveness! This is one thing I can never get my head around on SOTT, is that hate IS psychopathic, so hating psychopaths is not only hypocritical but oxymoronic. The only way we will ever rid the world of the cancer of human self-hatred is love. But we have to learn to love ourselves first, and it constantly surprises me how little we all do.