Bibi Netanyahu -- aka 'The Republican Senator From Israel' - May Have Made A Fatal Political Mistake
Set aside, for the moment, the diplomatic row being sparked by Speaker of the House John Boehner as he seeks to create two conflicting foreign policies for the United Statesone pursued by the President and the other pursued by the Congress.
Boehners hubris, in conjunction with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahus desire to interfere with American policy while seeking to bolster his re-election campaign, may turn out to be the very political screw-up that will allow the joint ticket forged by the Labor-Hatnuah political parties to bring an end to Netanyahus long reign atop the Israeli government.
According to a Channel 10 poll out this past Thursday in Israel, the joint ticket offered by the Labor-Hatnuah coalition currently stands to grab 24 seats in the Israeli Knesset in the coming electionup one seat from the previous pollwhile Netanyahus Likud Party is holding steady with just 20 seats.
The poll also projects that the party leaders atop the Labor-Hatnuah ticket, Issac Herzog and Tzipi Livni, have an increasingly good chance of forming the next Israeli government by assembling a coalition of between 61 and 68 seats in support of their government.
It turns out that there are no shortage of Israeli voters who dont care for the idea of their Prime Minister jumping into the middle of Americas internal disagreements over foreign policy and further understand that, at the end of the day, Israel remains deeply dependent upon the United States for critical assistance in the never-ending battle to preserve and protect their nation.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2015/01/25/bibi-netanyahu-aka-the-republican-senator-from-israel-may-have-made-a-fatal-political-mistake/
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)more moderate voices will prevail in Israel.
We shall see.....
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)That was great! Thank you for the headline.
rurallib
(62,423 posts)Israel dumped that dumb fuck years ago - but like the US they didn't learn