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.
Final Score Likud 36, Blue and Whites 35. Bibi is PM for the next four years.
Gantz and Lapid say the Blue and Whites are working toward the future.
This seams right. The new center secular party should bolster on its security credentials by being more bellicose than Bibi, just like JFK did with his 'missile gap' talking point against Nixon.
We think they should make a play to absorb what remains of Labour, which would make for a party with 40 seats or so built in. But those failed, quisling bastards in Labour are probably too prideful to admit the obvious and pack it in. As Talleyrand said of the royals they learn nothing and forget nothing.
Today is Bibi's day.
But tomorrow will be the day of a center party ready to resolve the religious v secular conflict.
We will be with them.
Bibi really screwed up:
Faced with the question, "If elections were held today, which party would you vote for?" respondents gave 35 seats to Blue and White; 29 seats to Likud; nine seats to Labor; seven seats to United Torah Judaism and to Hadash-Ta'al. Naftali Bennett's New Right party would secure six seats; Shas, the Union of Right-Wing Parties and Balad would have five seats apiece; while Kulanu, Yisrael Beiteinu and Meretz would each win four seats.
That's as solid a lead as one is ever going to get in the meshuga nut-house that is Israeli politics.
To be honest the poll is probably capturing the Blue and Whites at their peek. There's probably time for Bibi to recover.
Still, Netanyahu's alliance with the small and fringe Jewish Power party (no joke, that's what the Hebrew name translates to), is clearly alienating people.
It's alienating us. Seriously folks when it comes to Israeli politics we are unaligned. We are a swing voter. And while Iran may be our number one issue, our second issue is the religious-secular conflict in Israel. Between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, we chose Tel Aviv.
Bibi when you've lost Will you've lost the Israeli center.
