Anti -Asian Hate Crime Week: The Chindian Experience Part III

Usually when one walks into an Indian neighbor's home, one will see by the door a small statue of Ganesh, that's the Indian elephant god. We say usually because one of our neighbors is actually Christian. Anyway, we asked one of our neighbors at the bus stop this morning and he gave us the quick run down on Ganesh. Basically, he's something of a good luck charm that one keeps by the door, almost exactly like the Hebrew mezuzah. Remarkable, isn't it? And here we are, in racist, white-supremacist America sharing our religious practices with one another. 

We got our first vaccine shot yesterday. So far no side effects. It was a highly efficient drive-through operation staffed with polite and professional young people doing their jobs. We didn't even have to get out of the car. 

Oh look at that, the Israelis have managed to count nearly all the votes within 18 hours of the polls closing. There's about half a million votes left to count. You can do that? Huh. The Imams are right, the Jew is clever. 

The Jerusalem Post says Bibi and the right-bloc won 59 seats and Likud 30 overall, which is a bit short of where I thought they'd be. It will be up to President Rivlin to appoint someone to form the new government. Bibi is the obvious choice. With the closest rival Yesh Atid winning 18 seats, Netanyahu is still the once and future PM. 

So the Boulder Colorado shooter who murdered ten white people in an anti-European American hate crime was a Jihadist known to the FBI. President Trump should have disbanded the FBI and announced it by sending a company of M1 Tanks to blow the Hoover Building to rubble. 

We are once again quite pleased with the scenes read in '75. Sure they need editing, but this is the way they're gonna be. We actually need to write one or two to finish the chapter.

Yesterday's Best Seller...

….was Israel Strikes.

We're guessing this is becuase of the Israeli election and our blogging thereof.

Hey, the Iranians have bigger problems these days. Heh. 

Bibi be Mine

Bibi, you magnificent bastard, you did it!

As of this writing Likud's late surge in the polls gives them 36-37 seats to the Blue and White's 33. Overall the right-bloc won 59-60 seats. Still short of a majority, so they'll have to find a couple of MKs to switch parties. 

Not our problem.

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz should step aside. He can't get the job done. 

Meanwhile Benjamin Netanyahu is the once and future Prime Minister of Israel.

Oh, his corruption trial starts the 17th.

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.

Oley...Oley, Oley, Oley....Bibi....Bibi

A tremendous victory. 

Likud and the Blue and Whites tied at 35 seats each, but the right bloc won a solid 65-55 seat majority.

At three PM the polls closed. We had just finished our hour of cardio and checked the exits. The first batch showed the Blue and Whites winning 37-33, the other's showed them either ahead by one or tied. 

We thought, 'Now we'll see if the Stroock Effect still holds.'

We got in the car and turned on Hannity. Sean related the story of the 2004 exits which showed Jean Francois Kerry, (D-Niece) beating W. Ahhh yes...we remember for we were listening to Hannity that afternoon as well. Those exits were crap, as were these.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the once and future Prime Minister.

Bibi at the Last Minute

As we write Israelis are voting.

In the last few days Netanyahu said he will annex the large settlement blocs and proclaimed there will be no Palestinian state.

Rather than making the blocs and Palestine themes to be endlessly discussed and dissected he has used these issues to solidify his base at the very end of the campaign.

Well played, sir. Well played indeed.

Still want my Bibi my Bibi my Bibi

Via The Times of Israel a new poll show's Gantz and Netanyahu in a statistical tie:

The results of the survey mark the first time the head of the Blue and White party gained an edge in a poll with the prime minister, with 41 percent of respondents picking Gantz and 40 percent choosing Netanyahu when asked who they thought was most fit to serve as Israel’s prime minister, with the remainder saying they didn’t know. The margin is so small, however, as to fall within the poll’s margin of error.

Of course Israeli elections don't work this way but the result is interesting.

We suspect Gantz and the Blue and White's* have peaked. 

Bibi is the undisputed king of Israeli politics and he can probably work a way out of this mess.

As of right now we think he pulls out a narrow victory.

*We love this name. 

Elections Israel: This time it's Personal

Speaking of clever Jews, things seem to be panning out swimmingly for the cleverest Jew of all:

Channel 12 poll (this time with everyone)
Likud 32
Yesh Atid 14
Resilience (Gantz) 13
Labor 9
New Right 8
UTJ 7
Shas 6
Joint List 6
Tibi 6
Yisrael Beytenu 6
Meretz 5
Kulanu 4
Gesher 4

Don't pass the threshold: Hatnua, Bayit Yehudi, Telem (Ya'alon), Green Leaf, Zehut (Feiglin)

— Lahav Harkov (@LahavHarkov) January 16, 2019

This Ganz fellow is former IDF chief of staff, Benny Gantz.  In the Israeli apportionment system it's easy to form a new party. All one has to do is find a charismatic public figure and voila, you have a viable political party.

Sharon did it in 2005, bolting Likud and forming Kadima. I followed him there.

[Aha! You are more Israeli then American!-Ed]

I meant metaphorically, bitch.

So far, this election will change nothing. Bibi and Likud will win about 30 seats, and be asked by the president to form a center right coalition.

Netanyahu is the Tom Brady of Israeli politics. He just keeps coming back and winning...