- Israel general election Archived Message
Posted by Mary
on March 6, 2020, 6:59 am
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Head of the Joint List, Ayman Odeh, speaks in Israel’s northern city of Shefa-Amr after polls closed on 2 March Palestinian voters are the new power brokers in Israel, much to Netanyahu’s chagrin Palestinians flocked to the Joint List party and denied the prime minister a majority. Now they could even help oust him 5 Mar 2020 This election, the third in a year, was supposed to finally deliver Benjamin Netanyahu’s victory. His party, Likud, ran a relentlessly dirty campaign, which even Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, described as “awful and grubby”. Against the backdrop of his impending corruption charges, Netanyahu’s hope was that higher voter turnout would give Likud a majority. /.. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/05/palestinian-voters-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-joint-list-party Perhaps 'Bibi' will take the hint and go. |
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