When Jews vote Chaos Follows

We are less than two weeks away from Israel's do over election and the results will probably be the same as last April's election. Jeremy's Knesset Insider reports on the most recent poll:

Current Knesset seats in [brackets]

32 [38] Likud (Netanyahu & Kahlon)
32 [35] Blue & White (Gantz, Lapid, Yaalon & Ashkenazi)
10 [05] Yisrael Beitenu (Lieberman)
09 [10] The Joint List – Hadash-Taal-Raam-Balad (Odeh, Tibi & Abbas)
09 [06] Yamina (Shaked, Peretz, Smotrich & Bennett)
08 [08] Shas (Deri)
07 [08] United Torah Judaism (Litzman & Gafni)
07 [04] Democratic Union (Horowitz, Shafir & Barak)

06 [06] Labor (Peretz & Levy)

By this blog's count the right block (Likud, Yisrael Beitenu, Yamina, Shas, UTJ) gets 67 seats. Those last two are the Haredi religious hardliners. 

Remember, the Blue and Whites aren't really left at all, but center. Leader Benny Ganz proclaimed:

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz said Monday that he will not support a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Jewish settlements in the West Bank, vowing “there will be no second disengagement” and saying that any diplomatic agreement with the Palestinians will be put to the people for a referendum.

“I am in favor of us pushing toward an agreement that is based on the principles of retaining control of the Jordan Valley, keeping the settlement blocs, no dividing Jerusalem, no returning to the ’67 lines, no move that is unilateral,” Gantz told a conference held by the religious-Zionist news site Srugim in Jerusalem, two weeks before the September 17 national election.

Let me translate that from the original Yiddish: Hey International Community and Palestinians, get fucked. It doesn't sound any better in Yiddish.

In case reader(s) are wondering, though they are not, Labour, such as it is, is lead by Amir Peretz, who was defense minister during the 2006 War. That's like Robert McNamera running for president. So yeah, no.

According to this poll the big winner will be Avigdor Lieberman and Yisrael Beitenu, who scuppered the government after the last election.

Jerk.

So we'll be in for another round of contentious coalition negotiations.