If so, is that still a democracy? To be sure Israel's election is deadlocked, but Netanyahu is already declaring victory and why not? While no one knows what will happen at this point, the consensus is that he will eke out out a coalition in his favor again.
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu closed a gap with center-left rival Isaac Herzog in a hard-fought Israeli election on Tuesday, exit polls showed, leaving both men with a chance to rule but Netanyahu with the clearer path to forming a coalition."
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu closed a gap with center-left rival Isaac Herzog in a hard-fought Israeli election on Tuesday, exit polls showed, leaving both men with a chance to rule but Netanyahu with the clearer path to forming a coalition."
"A new centrist party, Kulanu, led by a former member of Netanyahu's right-wing Likud, seemed destined to emerge the kingmaker in possibly weeks of coalition negotiations."
"Two television polls, for Channel 10 and Channel 1, said Likud and Herzog's Zionist Union had each secured 27 seats each in the 120-member Knesset. Channel 2 gave Netanyahu a narrow edge, with 28 to 27 for his challenger."
"Final results are not expected until early on Wednesday morning."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/17/israeli-election-results_n_6887886.html
If he does win-and the odds seem to favor him again-is he more or less on the level of a Monarch or at least of Vladimir Putin?
Meanwhile, his campaign team is representing a victory for Bibi as a defeat for the Obama Administration-talk about progress in US-Israeli relations. However, if the Right wing Likud seems to have a lock on power in Israel, this is not so true of the GOP-which must really be frustrating to Bibi.
It seems that Netanyahu and his team are doing all kinds of unprecedented things-making the US-Israel relationship purely a partisan issue, and now also repudiating even in principle the idea of a Palestinian state.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/16/us-israel-election-idUSKBN0MC1I820150316
Liberals point out the folly of saying that because the Obama Administration has a problem with Bibi it has a problem with Israel. Yet, let's face it-if the Israeli people keep voting for Bibi maybe there's some truth in it; as the Israeli people seem to love Netanyahu and plan never to vote against his party again.
Bibi is as usual shrewd. He's basically declaring victory with everything undecided-kind of like how his buddy Bush did it back in 2000.
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