Bibi in big trouble: New poll shows Israeli PM in danger of losing bid for fourth term
Corroborating other surveys showing that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to score a big polling bounce following his controversial March 3 congressional address on Iran, a new poll released Tuesday finds the prime minister in grave danger of losing his bid for a fourth term ahead of national elections in one week.
The poll, from the Knesset Channel, puts the center-left Zionist Union ahead of Netanyahu’s Likud party, with the Zionist Union on track to win 24 seats in the 120-seat parliament to Likud’s 21. The centrist Yesh Atid party is projected to win 14 seats.
Haaretz notes that if the Zionist Union joins forces with Yesh Atid and smaller left-leaning and Arab parties, it could form a government with 56 seats. Combining with smaller right-rightist and ultra-Orthodox parties, Netanyahu is on track to assemble 55 seats at most.
The Zionist Union is a coalition of Isaac Herzog’s Labor and Tzipi Livini’s Hatnuah parties. If the coalition manages to form a government, the two plan to rotate the prime ministership, with Herzog serving as premier for the first two years of the government’s term and Livni serving for the latter half. Both Herzog and Livni harshly criticized Netanyahu’s congressional address denouncing a potential Iranian nuclear deal, arguing that the speech further isolated Israel on the international stage.
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http://www.salon.com/2015/03/10/bibi_in_big_trouble_new_poll_shows_israeli_pm_in_danger_of_losing_bid_for_fourth_term/
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Glad you're here! I've never trusted the GOP, but now we know they're TRAITORS!!!!! Thank you, New York Daily News! I am relishing this!
And as for bibi-baby, as a mother, I hate to see bad behavior rewarded - or reinforced. That conniving back-stabbing showboating stunt last week very nicely stuck a shiv in our President's back, stuck another one in our Secretary of State's back, and conspired with the party that's NOT in the White House to use OUR Congress chambers as a stage for his own political self-aggrandizement. This is how you treat a friend, bibi?
If he fails in his reelection bid then it's a good lesson. Which I'd bet he would not learn. I'd be most interested to see what kind of excuse he'd make, on which (or on whom) to blame his next failure.
For netanyahu, I've got only two words: Screw You. Or three words: Screw You, Pal. I wouldn't have watched that speech if he'd paid me.
Oh, and btw - as to my earlier point...
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We need a change, too. Want this clown to give up the speaker's mallet, too.
