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Israel's Netanyahu appears headed toward 5th term as PM

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USA choose a wrong headed President

And Israeli choose a corrupted PM

One similar point might be: both are looking for new war.

Very Sad for other part of human being.

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USA choose a wrong headed President

And Israeli choose a corrupted PM

One similar point might be: both are looking for new war.

Very Sad for other part of human being.

And Israeli has chosen him 5 times now.

Lets hope America doesn't follow suit and reelect Trump in 2020...

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@Realization... you can't criticise Netanyahu... it's anti-Semitic... at least that's what they tell us. ^_^

Seriously though there will be no peace between Israelis and Palestinians as long as the status quo continues - and I don't see Israel giving back the territory it stole over the past five or six decades.

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It's not like there was any hope for peace in the middle east anyway...

Another generation of Palestinian is sure to suffer for nothing.

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If Netanyahu does illegally annex the West Bank, it might be a good thing for the Palestinians.

First, it underscores the fact that Israel is a criminal state that doesn't give a fig about international law.

Second, it completely kills the two-state delusion, which was never going to happen anyway.

Third, it will encourage the Palestinians to transform their national struggle into a civil rights struggle.

Fourth, it paves the way for a re-unified Palestine as a secular non-sectarian state with equal rights for everybody.

In the short term, it will be an apartheid state, but it's an apartheid state already. 

Given the current circumstances, the struggle to create a Palestinian state is a battle the Palestinians can't win.

The struggle to maintain an apartheid state is a battle the Israelis can't win, not in the long term.

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This is a triumph for corruption in Israel. The current dangerous occupant of the White House in Washington, DC is responsible, in part, for another period of unrest in the region. Shame on both of them.

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Low Arab voter turn out.

Amazing how the Arabs can vote in a Jewish state.

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USA choose a wrong headed President

In 2008 and 2012.

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Given that the Israeli ’elections’ was just as much of a scam as the ’elections’ the White State in South Africa held, right down to the ’choices’ being violent racists, that the population of Palestine, INCLUDING the population of the Jewish State in Palestine, were going to be the losers was unavoidable.

That those who have to pretend to not see the Crime Against Humanity that is defined in the ICSPCA being carried out right in front of their eyes are going to continue to be in the same position as the Trump Whitehouse press secretary, and the Republican ’leadership’ is almost enough to make one sorry for them, until, that is, you consider what it is that they are willingly fronting for.

PS, a small fraction of the nonWhite population were allowed to vote in the Apartheid South African elections, too. And there were folks who insisted that that made them legitimate, too. Which is why the definition of Apartheid contained in the ICSPCA, and posted on walls of the Apartheid Museum in Soweto, doesn't say anything about a total denial of residency and voting rights to the majority ethnic group. It sets the threshold at the denial of residency and voting rights to ENOUGH of the majority ethnic group within the legal population of the territory claimed by the regime to make a minority ethnic group within the population the 'majority' of those the regime says have those rights.

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No change expected to the Jewish apartheid state and no possibility of a peace solution with the Palestinians but we can expect an escalation in the Hamas attacks especially if Netanyahu annexes the West Bank. Not supported by the majority of voters, much like Trump. Two peas in a pod.

Zichi, give it up, you don’t need to split hairs and you didn’t make a headcount, Bibi won, (as I have predicted he would) that’s it, splitting hairs is not going to change that.

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"Bidi" didn't win? His party probably will win 35 seats,

But he will be PM again, so that is a win regardless of how you slice it. He won a 5th term, don’t spin it, it makes you guys look hilarious. Anyway, congrats to him.

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That might only be true if he his found not guilty

I don’t think he will, just get used to it, let it sink it, take it all in, he’s going to serve a 5th term. Nothing more to say.

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Netanyahu could end up Crime Minister instead of Prime Minister

....or he could end just being PM.

Former president and prime minister and many ministers have been found guilty of various crimes.

But he will still be PM bottom line.

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bass...what is your obsession, as an American with who the Prime Minister of Israel is? And besides, if it's just ideology, then Gantz seems a better choice for you doesn't he? Former military... someone who actually commanded an army unlike peewee Beebee.

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The outcome affirmed Israel's continued tilt to the right and further dimmed hopes of a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

How do you dim the hopes of a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when it is obvious that the various Palestinian groups, and their supporters, do not now, and never will, accept the fact that Israel can even exists? Demanding an end to Israel is NOT a negotiating tactic. It's another demand for genocide.

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The American Left isn’t going to be happy about this. Obama’s political consultants failed to oust Netanyahu in the past and now he has won an historic 5th term. Keep an eye on Ilhan Omar’s twitter account; the anti-Semitism could get ugly.

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