Oh Comrade!

by Hellsangel Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:25 pm

Ha ha ha!

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Israeli-elections-take-dramatic-turn-as-Likud-opens-up-six-seat-lead-over-Zionist-Union-394271

by confuzzled dude Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:33 pm

Israelis went to the polls on Tuesday to elect a new government, and the country's incumbent leader was very worried.

Over the past few months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saw what some assumed would be a comfortable reelection morph into a tightly contested race. In the final days ahead of the vote, Netanyahu's rhetoric grew increasingly hawkish, even for his standards. On Monday, he declared there would be no independent Palestinian state under his watch. And on Tuesday, as Israelis cast their ballots, he sounded the alarm about who was voting.

"The right-wing government is in danger," Netanyahu wrote in a Facebook post. "Arab voters are coming out in droves to the polls. Left-wing organizations are busing them out."

It's also unclear whether Netnayahu's claims on Tuesday morning about a surge in Arab voters was even true. Some observers suggested that Arab voting trends this year were consistent with previous elections.

Whatever the case, it's startling when a sitting prime minister laments high voter turnout, and another sign of Netanyahu's desperation. Avigdor Lieberman, Netanyahu's foreign minister and the head of the Yisrael Beitenu party, echoed the fears of his boss in a tweet, saying, "Netanyahu also knows that if the Arabs are voting in droves, only a strong Lieberman can stop them." Lieberman, known for his strident anti-Arab rhetoric, said last week that "disloyal" Israeli Arabs should be beheaded.

Critics on social media condemned the Israeli prime minister's racial scare tactics, which spawned a few satirical memes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/03/17/on-israeli-election-day-netanyahu-warns-of-arabs-voting-in-droves/?hpid=z1

by Hellsangel Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:35 pm

Another of your predictions goes bust, Comrade.

by Hellsangel Wed Mar 18, 2015 9:34 am

Today's NY Times headline:

Netanyahu Soundly Defeats Chief Rival

Today's WaPo headline:

Netanyahu wins decisive victory in Israeli election

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