Chaos Reigns Supreme: The Friday Election Report

22 Av 5779

23 August 2019

 

 

Quote of the Day

“We are operating – not just if needed, we are operating in many areas against a state that wants to annihilate us. Of course I gave the security forces a free hand and instructed them to do anything necessary to thwart Iran’s plans.”

PM Netanyahu, speaking on Israel’s Russian Channel 9 television in response to a question about whether Israel is attacking Iranian targets in Iraq.

Apparently there were more attacks in the Baghdad area overnight. It’s too bad that Netanyahu doesn’t give security forces a free hand in Gaza.

 

The News on the Israeli Street

Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .

On the Gaza border:

*Another violent attack occurred on the border last night when a Palestinian terrorist attacked a group of Golani soldiers with grenades (click here for an eleven second video of the attack). They returned fire and killed him.

*In an extraordinary statement yesterday, the IDF spokesman absolved Hamas of all blame concerning the recent firing of missiles into southern Israel. Instead, he pinned all responsibility for the rocket attacks on Islamic Jihad.

It is simply amazing how Hamas has suddenly become the good guy and Islamic Jihad the bad in Gaza—whereas Hamas is the bad guy and the PLO is the good guy in Areas A and B of Judea and Samaria.

*The Qatari blackmail money man has arrived in Gaza and will be doling out money to Hamasniks and Islamic Jihadists during the day. Apparently, Israel conditioned receipt of the money on Hamas and Islamic Jihad maintaining quiet until after the September 17th election.

Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad refused.

Both terrorist groups are receiving the money anyway.

In Judea and Samaria:

After months of being desperately begged by the Netanyahu government to take fuel tax monies (in the amount of half a billion dollars), PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas agreed to do so yesterday.

You will recall that Abbas refused to take the money because Israel was reducing the payments by the amount that the PLO pays terrorists in prison and the families of dead terrorists.

In one sense Abbas relented but even as he did so yesterday, he crowed that the PLO would never stop paying the salaries to prisoners and money to the families of “martyrs.”

 

TODAY’S BLOG:

Chaos Reigns Supreme: The Friday Election Report

There are numerous polls out this morning–all of which show the same thing, Likud continues to have a slight lead followed by Blue and White. The only thing that has changed is that the Labor party seems to be hovering at the extinction point (if they don’t receive 4 seats in the election, they do not get into the Knesset).

A representative poll from Israel Hayom:

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Likud (Netanyahu) 32

Blue and White (Gantz and Lapid) 31

Joint Arab List 12

United Right (Shaked) 10

Yisrael Beiteinu (Lieberman) 10

Shas 8

United Torah Judaism 7

Democratic Union (Barak) 6

Labor (Peretz) 4

To put all of this in a different way, the Right-Orthodox Coalition would have 57 seats; the Left-Arab Coalition would have 53.  Yisrael Beiteinu is not included on either side.

However, that Left-Arab Coalition does not really exist.

Yesterday saw a comical sequence of events. At first, Ayman Odeh, the head of the Arab List said that it would be willing to join a coalition of parties on the left including the Blue and White Party.

Then, he said he was quoted out of context and only meant that such a coalition could exist when “the occupation is over.”

Then, Blue and White issued a statement in which it said it would never form a coalition with the Arab List.

Then, Ahmed Tibi of the Arab List said that it would never join a coalition with “the Blue and White generals” until there is a independent state of Palestine.

You get the message. In reality, the Left Coalition would only win 41 seats.

Meanwhile, Amir Peretz of the Labor Party said he might be willing to join a coalition with Likud if Netanyahu accepts the Trump Peace Plan (whatever that is). At the same time, Rafi Peretz of the United Right Party said that they would not sit in a coalition government that gave away one square millimeter of land according to the Trump Peace Plan.

While all of this was going on, Avigdor Lieberman actually made noises that he might join a Netanyahu coalition; however, he is upset because “no one in Likud is talking to me.”

And so it goes.

It is now only 25 days until the election, and chaos reigns supreme.