Tag Archives: Israeli elections

Corona, political infighting, is there any Good News for Friday?

Posted on 13 March 2020 by anneinpt

The news has been inexorably bad for the last few weeks and I have been in no mood to write anything (in case you hadn’t noticed). The 3rd round of Israeli elections yielded exactly the same results as the second … Continue reading →

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Israeli National Elections 2019

Posted on 9 April 2019 by anneinpt

Today is election day, in fact as of this writing it is nearly over. I have not written about the elections at all for a few reasons: As I have mentioned frequently lately, we have been dealing with a family … Continue reading →

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US State Department’s perfidy undermining Israeli sovereignty

Posted on 13 July 2016 by anneinpt

I often write about “perfidious Albion”, referring to the hypocrisy and two-faced bias of Britain against Israel. But in the last few years under the Obama Administration, it is America, or more precisely the State Department, that has earned the … Continue reading →

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Obama’s spiteful reaction to Netanyahu’s winning the elections

Posted on 22 March 2015 by anneinpt

By now everyone has heard all about Binyamin Netanyahu’s statement about a two-state solution not happening while he is Prime Minister, and also his possibly ill-advised words warning about Arabs being bussed in to vote on election day. I call … Continue reading →

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How Israelis viewed the election results

Posted on 21 March 2015 by anneinpt

Professor William Jacobson, (a law professor at Cornell University, an avowed conservative, Zionist and staunch defender of Israel, whom I had the pleasure to meet a couple of years ago) who runs the law-blog Legal Insurrection kindly invited me to … Continue reading →

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Israeli Elections 2015: Likud’s win, and how the polls got it wrong

Posted on 19 March 2015 by anneinpt

Since the initial exit polls came out, the final numbers have changed the results even more radically.  Some caution is still required since the “double envelop” absentee and soldiers’ vote have still not been fully counted and those could change … Continue reading →

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