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I'm not really sure who is advising this man and what he is trying to accomplish. Moderate Israelis support a two-state solution and so did Bibi until the day before the election. He needs more votes to win, not less. So if he loses, will Republicans still be pro-Israel?
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I'm not really sure who is advising this man and what he is trying to accomplish. Moderate Israelis support a two-state solution and so did Bibi until the day before the election. He needs more votes to win, not less. So if he loses, will Republicans still be pro-Israel?
He's a politician trying to keep his job, that's about it.
I guess I'll wait for the Fat Lady to sing. The Likud Party lost in 2009 and Bibi still became Prime Minister.
In the Parliamentary system, it's not enough to "win", you have to also be able to form a Government coalition.
It could be a month or more ...... none of them really get along. Security usually trumps.
I'm not really sure who is advising this man and what he is trying to accomplish. Moderate Israelis support a two-state solution and so did Bibi until the day before the election. He needs more votes to win, not less. So if he loses, will Republicans still be pro-Israel?
Moderates will decide, if he doesn't support a 2 state solution then what? Ten years down the road what does he expect without a 2 state solution.
I'm not really sure who is advising this man and what he is trying to accomplish. Moderate Israelis support a two-state solution and so did Bibi until the day before the election. He needs more votes to win, not less. So if he loses, will Republicans still be pro-Israel?
Lol--this is what happens when one aligns themselves with the House GOP. They don't just lose their own presidential elections--now they are losing foreign ones as well.
Everything they touch turns to manure. How ironic.
But the real reason why neither man will sign a peace deal with Abbas has nothing to do with their respective and all-too similar stands. Rather, it has to do with the unchanged political culture of the Palestinians that has prevented Yasir Arafat and then Abbas from accepting Israeli offers of statehood four times in the last 15 years. Until Palestinian nationalism stops being inextricably connected with a century-long war on Zionism, peace will never happen. And with Gaza still firmly under the control of Hamas, the already slim odds of Abbas feeling strong enough to make peace (assuming that he actually wants to) will remain zero. Moreover, most Israelis think a repeat of the disastrous 2005 withdrawal from Gaza would probably result in another Hamasistan in the West Bank.
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