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Israel Elections Live Updates: Exit Polls Show Dead Heat; Both Sides Claim Victory
By artappraiser on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 4:53pm |@ NYTimes.com, April 8, 5:00 pm
• Exit polls show a dead heat in the race between Benjamin Netanyahu, the polarizing, right-wing prime minister, and his main rival, Benny Gantz, a newcomer to electoral politics who is seen as a centrist. Both men claimed victory.
[....] Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Gantz emerged in a dead heat in Tuesday’s parliamentary election, according to preliminary exit polls.
The muddled projected outcome left Israel teetering at a critical juncture between an ever sharper turn to the right or a more moderate reset of the political order.
The exit polls of the three main television channels were sufficiently disparate that both sides claimed victory.
In a head-to-head matchup, two of the polls showed Mr. Gantz’s Blue and White party ahead and a third showed him in a draw with Mr. Netanyahu’s Likud party. But including the broader blocs supporting each party, two polls showed the Likud bloc ahead and the third was a draw [....]
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Netanyahu likely leads with a right wing coalition.....Israeli Arab citizens fail to turnout to vote !
by NCD on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 7:41pm
So I am over at the Ha'aretz site looking at NCD's link to live election coverage of the squeaker, must be a nail biter over there. And I look over to the right and there is a "TRENDING" menu of stories. And at the top of the list there is this bright red picture and it's a conclave of Roman Catholic cardinals, and the story is a big Ha'aretz Magazine feature. Ah, the allure of the mystery and troubles of "the other" to take one's mind off of things! (Unfortunately I can't access the whole story, used up my Ha'artez chips!)
Sex Parties, Drugs and Gay Escorts at the Pope's Residence: Undercover in the Vatican
French writer Frédéric Martel, whose new book exposes the sexual secrets of the Vatican, explains how the moral rot of the Catholic Church is rooted in its clergy's repressed homosexuality
By Benny Zifter, April 6
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 10:40pm
The hypocrisy in the Catholic church is mind boggling. It exists in many religions or institutions but the Catholic church seems to go above and beyond the normal hypocrisy.
by ocean-kat on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 11:03pm
And why Arabs fail to vote?
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-these-israelis-ar...
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 04/10/2019 - 1:38am
Very good podcast catch-up on Israeli political situation/election analysis if you've got the time; sophisticated but easy to understand. Doesn't count as a chit, is free:
LISTEN: Netanyahu – the Political Genius Leading Israel Into the Abyss
Israel's longest-serving prime minister just secured another term of office, using tactics perfected by despots and dictators. What happens next? LISTEN FREE
Haaretz Weekly
Apr 10, 2019
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/10/2019 - 4:18pm
I found this a good splainer on the "why?". In this case, it's the security, stupid (instead of it's the economy stupid) and rather than offering alternate vision of their own, Blue and White just focused on offering an alternative to corrupt coarse Bibi personality, offering civlity and centrism without any other vision. Many will take the corrupt and coarse with the security:
Why Israel Still Loves Netanyahu
Yes, he has many faults. But on the issues that matter most, he’s a visionary leader.
By Shmuel Rosner @ NYTimes.com, April 10
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/10/2019 - 4:47pm
NYTimes' columnist Roger Cohen says that
Israel’s Lesson for the Democrats in 2020
The election was a referendum on Netanyahu and he nailed it. His playbook will be Trump’s in 2020..
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/10/2019 - 4:36pm