Election Wrap

Biden's campaign of the undead staggers on to Super Tuesday.

In other news, on Monday the Israelis will have their third election in a year. We haven't written about it becuase we had forgotten about it. It looks like we'll have more or less the same result as the other two elections. For those requiring an update. Avigdor Liberman and his Israel Bitenyu party have refused to enter into a right-bloc coalition. They hate Arabs but they hate Haredi Jews even more. Hence the impasse.

Rumor has it, and by rumor we mean our Rabbi said on Friday, that Liberman will throw in with Benny Ganz and the Blue and Whites. Which is just fine with us. Ganz has endorsed the Trump peace plan. He ain't no Shimon Peres.

After that we have Super Tuesday! So lame. Readers should understand we're holding up our hand and making an L sign as we type this.

Go Right, Righter, and Righter Still and You'll see...Bibi

Another fine column by the ToI's  David Horovitz.

Nut-graph, as the J-school losers say, it's Bibi's world and Israelis are just livin' in it.

Bibi's biggest rival, and it's personal, isn't Ganz and the Blue and Whites but Avigdor Liberman and Israel Bitenyu. That's the target. Let's see if Bibi hurts him badly enough.

This blog would like to see a government of National Unity between Likud and the Blue and Whites, but Ganz and company would probably insist upon rotating the prime minister spot, something Bibi would never, ever do.

We'll almost certainly see a right, righter and rightest Israeli coalition - the result of the failed 'peace process' and the failure of the Israeli secular elite - and Bibi's never-ending success.

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.