Category: International Situations

Just Another Bullsh*t Lie?

There was another story that needed a bit of attention but the election took the limelight.

Minutes before the country went to the polls Dear Donny made a shocking statement…..

President Trump says a big annual check to Israel is nearing its end. In a Fox & Friends phone interview Tuesday morning as US midterm voting got underway, he said he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed the US will halt roughly $4 billion in yearly aid “at the end of the year,” describing the spending as “a wasted thing” and asserting Israel is “fine with it” because it is now “very successful.” “We’ve already agreed that by the end of this year we won’t be paying Israel,” he said, per Al Jazeera. ‌”Now we’ll help Israel if they need it.”

A Netanyahu spokesperson said Israel was unaware of such a deal and would seek clarification, reports NBC News. It’s not clear which funding Trump was referencing; a $3.8 billion-a-year military aid package outlined in a memorandum of understanding runs through 2028. Oil markets reacted fast: Brent crude slid more than 3% to about $101 a barrel, with traders betting Trump’s stance signals less risk of a wider conflict involving Iran. The move comes after US warplanes struck an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.

This would be fantastic news if it did not come from Donny or was uttered on election day.

We all know just what a liar this tool is and how he tries to manipulate the politics around him….I personally do not believe this for a goddamn moment….AIPAC would be outraged spending all that cash and Donny does this to them….his statement is a well placed lie.

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The timing of Trump’s announcement raised eyebrows, coming on the morning of the midterm elections. Commentators opined that the announcement appeared aimed at undercutting criticism from progressive Democrats and the president’s own disaffected supporters.

Skepticism is also rooted in the fact that US military assistance to Israel technically cannot end by the end of the year.

First, the current US-Israel military assistance memorandum of understanding, signed under then-President Barack Obama in 2016, provides $38 billion over 10 years, including $33 billion in foreign military financing and $5 billion for missile defense. The MOU runs through September 2028, not December 2026.

Netanyahu faces an uncertain political future after indecisive parliamentary elections last month, and as The Times of Israel noted Tuesday, he has discussed phasing out American assistance, but over a decade—not abruptly ending it this year.

Second, Section 219 of the House-passed fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act would establish a United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative, coordinating joint research, development, testing, and industrial cooperation in areas including missile defense, drones, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. The highly contentious provision would significantly integrate the two countries’ defense industries and institutionalize cooperation.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-israel-aid-cutoff-stunt

So relax all you Israel worshipers the terrorist state of Israel will not lose its funding from the US…..this was merely a lame attempt by Donny to influence the election in some minor way.

The master bullsh*tter strikes again.

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How To Explain The Vote

There are still a few races that are not set in stone…..Mississippi being one of them (go figure)….

But there are a few reasons why Donny is losing his cool….

To say Democrats won big on Election Day almost seems like an understatement, with flips of longtime GOP seats that handed both the House and Senate to the opposition party, per the Guardian. The outlet notes that preelection polls “failed to fully predict the extent of the party’s massive wins,” with surveys holding back somewhat on Dem prospects, partly due to polling missteps in 2024. However, the way things panned out turned out to be “way, way worse than Republicans anticipated,” notes the Washington Post. Some big takeaways from the Democrats’ successes in Election 2026:

  • Furious voters: An “angry electorate” is credited by Reuters for the GOP’s losses, with nearly two-thirds of voters in exit polls pointing the finger at Trump for the high current cost of living, and 75% noting they were dissatisfied or angry with the country’s direction.
  • End of Trump’s sway? NBC News reports that election results mirrored Trump’s own sinking approval ratings. The president “tried to persuade Republicans across the country to show up and vote for GOP candidates,” the outlet notes. “But he had lost his influence with them. It’s harder to persuade voters to follow you if they don’t think you’re doing a credible job.”
  • Gerrymandering gamble: It didn’t pay off in many districts that were redrawn to favor Republicans, per the New York Times, which cites Dem wins in North Carolina and Florida, among other places. “So many of our colleagues made the patriotic and courageous decision to stay and fight,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said. “They didn’t run away from the fire. They ran toward the fire and helped put it out.”
  • Billionaires’ bust: Besides Republican candidates, tech tycoons were another group that suffered big losses, including SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who poured nearly $450 million into GOP races around the nation, per CNBC. The results “are a wake-up call for corporate special interests and billionaires who have been rigging the economy,” said Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas, who won his Senate race in New Hampshire, becoming the first openly gay male US senator.
  • MAGA implosion? The Wall Street Journal reports on the “cracks” that have emerged in the “Make America Great Again” contingent, with preliminary results showing that some key demographics that helped propel Trump back to the Oval Office in 2024—including Hispanic, Black, and non-college-educated white voters—rejected him this time around.
  • Latino angle: NPR reports that they’re now “a true swing group in America,” though it cautioned against treating Latinos like a monolith. Axios notes one staggering example: In Texas’ heavily Hispanic-leaning Starr County, Democratic Sen.-elect James Talarico led by almost 60 points, which was a 75-point reversal from two years ago.

Now that Dems think they are in control….what will be their first punch at Donny?

It amazed me the number of non-white governors we will have in 2027…..and most are Dems which is amazing after all the races they lost in the past….I guess a shitty president will help out.

Anything to add

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Look Who’s Smiling Now

That would be the Dems in this contest….it appears they had a very good election in this round…..Donny is not happy….and he has an excuse as usual….

With the midterms shaping up to be a rout in favor of Democrats, President Trump weighed in with a brief assessment of what went wrong for his party about 10:40pm. “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!” he wrote on Truth Social. “Thank you for your attention to this matter.” On the campaign trail, Trump had repeatedly struck a similar theme.

“You have to pretend I’m on the ballot,” he told a rally in Georgia last month, per the Georgia Recorder. “OK, the story is this: We get 49% more votes when I’m on the ballot. When I’m not on the ballot—I guess it’s a compliment—but people don’t show up so much.” Republican candidates, however, apparently didn’t feel the same way. Axios reported that they essentially stopped mentioning him in ads as the election drew closer.

Shall we take a look at the successes of the Dems?

I am sure the big news has made it to every corner of the internet….the Dems have both Houses…..

The AP reports that Democrats have won control of the House as part of a massive midterm backlash to President Trump’s policies that also saw the party take control of the Senate by flipping seats in states including Texas, South Carolina, and Kansas. The New York Times projects that the party will win around 255 seats, giving them their largest majority in almost 20 years.

  • The swing toward Democrats saw the party win in districts that Trump won by double digits in 2024, reports CNN. Several Democrats, including Rep. Shomari Figures in Alabama, won despite efforts to defeat them through redistricting.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is expected to become the first Black House speaker, handing Democrats control of key committees and subpoena power that could reshape Trump’s second term, NBC News reports. Democrats are signaling aggressive oversight of Trump’s administration, business dealings, and immigration policies, while some members are openly discussing a possible third impeachment. Jeffries says nothing is off the table, even as party leaders also pledge to target Trump’s Iran policy, tariffs, and health-care rollbacks through legislation.

Our promise to the country in the new Congress is that, beginning on Day 1, we’re going to hold the crooks accountable,” Jeffries said ahead of the election. On Tuesday night, he said, “America is back,” CBS News reports. “Today begins the great American comeback,” Jeffries said. “This is a change election, and we understand as House Democrats that we need to deliver dramatic change.” House Speaker Mike Johnson, meanwhile, has signaled that he wants to remain the party’s leader even when Republicans become the minority party, the Hill reports.

Do not trust Jeffries!  He is a stooge for the corporations.

Now the Senate will be in Dem hands (for a change)….

Democrats have retaken control of the US Senate, delivering a decisive rebuke of Republican control of governance in Washington and ushering in a new era of congressional resistance to President Trump, the AP reports. The midterm elections that came to a close Tuesday channeled voters’ deep frustration with high prices, the war in Iran, and concerns about government corruption. The House remains too early to call, but Democrats have already flipped seven seats as they try to win the majority in that chamber as well.

Democratic control of the Senate will profoundly reshape Trump’s final two years in office and likely hamstring his ability to push his agenda, including his hopes for sustaining a conservative shift to the Supreme Court. Democrats charted an extraordinary path to Senate victory through some of the most conservative states in the nation. Josh Turek defeated Rep. Ashley Hinson in Iowa and Adam Hamilton ousted Sen. Roger Marshall in Kansas as part of a cascade of stunning victories. James Talarico defeated Ken Paxton in Texas, Annie Andrews upset Darline Graham in South Carolina, Sherrod Brown beat Sen. Jon Husted in Ohio, and Roy Cooper took an open North Carolina seat. Other close races were still to be called.

A new day is coming….that is the promise of the Dems as they have control….but that is only words….will their actions show the day has arrived?

Surely you have a few thoughts……

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Are The Votes Being Bought?

There has been a record amount of people going to vote and likewise a record amount of billionaires buying votes wherever they can…..

Some of the richest people in the US have spent unprecedented sums of money to influence the outcome of the 2026 midterm elections, and a Sunday report in The New York Times estimated that the top 20 biggest donors alone have spent a combined $2 billion in federal races this cycle.

The single largest funder of the 2026 midterms, by a wide margin, is far-right billionaire Elon Musk, who has shoveled nearly $450 million to help GOP candidates.

In fact, pro-Republican donors account for the five largest individual contributors to midterm races.

In addition to Musk, the other largest donors this cycle are industrialists Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, who have given $150 million to help elect Republicans; flagship GOP Senate super PAC One Nation, which has spent $138 million; venture capitalists Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz, who have given $116 million; and hedge fund investor Jeff Yass, who has given $110 million.

On the Democratic side, the top spenders have been flagship Democratic Senate super PAC Majority Forward, which has spent $104 million, and George and Alexander Soros, who have given $103 million.

The Times’ report echoes an analysis published last week by the Brennan Center for Justice showing that the 40 largest individual donors to the 2026 elections had spent a combined $2.4 billion as of mid-October.

According to Brennan, this represents the single largest amount of money spent on a midterm election ever since the US Supreme Court’s landmark 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. FEC unleashed limitless political campaign spending.

The Brennan analysis reveals that the spending of the very largest donors has grown dramatically over the last decade.

“The donations coming from the top 40 donors for the midterms total eight times the amount from the top 40 donors by mid-October in the 2014 midterms (the first full midterm cycle after Citizens United), adjusted for inflation,” the analysis explains. “The cutoff to be in the top 40 has also increased to 10 times what it was four cycles ago, to $25 million.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2026-midterms-top-donors

None of this should be a surprise to anyone capable of following the money….but no matter the winners we will get the best government money can buy.

The only winners in this election will most likely be the oligarchs…..not us peasants.

Can you see it?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Election Day–2026 (Cond)

The day has finally come and we will make our wishes known through our vote….for better or worse….the decision will be made.

Here’s what is known at this time….

Election Day is here. Just don’t expect Election Day night to answer all the midterms’ burning questions. Tight races, mail voting rules, and ranked-choice systems in states like Alaska, Maine, Arizona, and California mean some key contests—and possibly control of Congress—could take days or even weeks to sort out, reports the New York Times.

  • The consensus: As anyone following coverage this year knows, forecasters give Democrats a great chance of flipping the House and a decent chance of flipping the Senate. Nate Silver, for example, puts the percentages for those outcomes at 95% and 80%, respectively, at his Silver Bulletin.
  • Poll caveat: Nate Cohn of the New York Times notes that Trump-era polls have previously underestimated Republican support, and there’s a “real possibility” of that happening again. The president’s supporters tend not to respond to pollsters’ queries.
  • You pick:The Wall Street Journal has a detailed look at state-by-state forecasts, and its tool allows readers to make their own projections.
  • record: Tuesday might be Election Day, but a record number of people already have cast their ballots, reports USA Today. The University of Florida Election Lab puts the figure at roughly 54 million.
  • Early results: Axios cautions those watching results come in Tuesday night against drawing early conclusions, mainly because right-leaning states such as Florida report first. “In every national election since 2018, the House and Senate votes counted by 9pm ET were 4 to 9 percentage points more Republican than the final result,” its analysis notes.

That is just about everything you could possibly want to know….with the exception of the winners…..that will be a post for tomorrow or as soon as the winners are known.

The turn out looks pretty good which I was not expecting here in my state of Mississippi….this is a Deep Red State and most think it is a fore drawn conclusion on who the winners will be….

What will the outcome be….a reinforcement of Donny and his destructive policies or possibly a new way forward?

Any thoughts?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Election Day–2026

Today is the big day!  The day when Americans could make a difference.

They tell us there is good news as we ready our vote….

The election eve math looks promising for Democrats in both the Senate and House. A final New York Times/Siena poll of seven key Senate battlegrounds finds Democratic candidates leading in five Republican-held states—Kansas (5 points), Maine (6 points), Ohio (5 points), Texas (7 points), and Alaska (2 points)—and essentially tied in Iowa. In Michigan, the only surveyed seat they already control, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is up by double digits (11), though the poll was taken before the weekend stunner that saw Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens endorsing Republican Mike Rogers in the race.

The shift is tied to sour views of President Trump’s economic stewardship: Only 38% of likely voters in these states approve of his performance. Voters now give Democrats a clear edge on handling the cost of living, foreign wars, and “what’s best for ordinary people.” Democrats are also winning independents, younger voters, and Latinos. Pollsters caution that late-deciding voters are breaking Republican, but if these numbers hold, Democrats would capture the Senate. They need a net flip of four seats. As for the House, it’s essentially “Democrats’ to lose,” reports the Washington Post. They need a net flip of three seats, and scores of competitive races have been shifting in the party’s favor, according to the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.

That looks promising but we know just how unreliable polls and such have been in the last 20 years.

We shall see how inaccurate these are this time around……

AS we Americans go to the polls to vote our desires for government there will be an large portion of those votes for Donny and his choices.  Ever since he, Donny, won years ago people have been trying to make sense of why so much loyalty to one that is hurting them in so many way.

Why do these people refuse to withhold their allegiance?

There is a few answers….

President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are cratering. Even his Make America Great Again, or MAGA, diehards have reservations.

This fact was evident to me when I attended MAGA rallies in three states on Oct. 24-25, 2026. One was a Turning Point USA get-out-the-vote event outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Along with a few dozen America First stalwarts wearing white “America the Beautiful” caps, I sat on a wooden table under a small picnic pavilion listening to speakers such as MAGA activist Scott Presler and Trump-endorsed U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser. Meuser reeled off MAGA talking points, including the supposed threat posed by transgender athletes and bathroom use, immigrant voter fraud and the “billionaire anarchist George Soros.”

Remarkably, the speakers barely mentioned Trump. The audience clapped politely, but the energy was tepid compared to the many MAGA rallies I attended in 2024, when the Pennsylvania landscape was dotted with Trump and MAGA signs. This time I saw none.

The numbers bear out what I observed.

A mid-October 2026 poll found that only a third of U.S. adults approve of the job Trump is doing; 71% feel the country is on the wrong track. The majority of Americans are pessimistic. A growing number worry about government corruption.

The reason?

There’s the war with Iran that has resulted in U.S. soldiers being killed and wounded. The conflict is costing billions of dollars and spiked the price of gas. But most of all, Trump has lost support on the economy amid growing inflation and an affordability crisis.

Remarkably, despite the headwinds, many of Trump’s MAGA loyalists still back him. This point was underscored by the Harrisburg event I attended as well as Trump’s midterm rallies, where attendees still enthusiastically chant “U.S.A.” and are decked out in red caps and MAGA merch.

Why?

https://www.alternet.org/trump-rally-fan/

What comes to my mind is….a successful propaganda machine.

Plus the bigotry that lay hidden for many years was allowed to come forward into the world of Donny….and his supporters do not want to return to the days when they had to hide their hatred.

No matter what he does to destroy their lives he will continue to get their support….I know….it sounds stupid….well it is!

What do you think is the reason for this misplaced loyalty?

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“lego ergo scribo”

What Do I Believe?

Tomorrow we go to the polls and I thought I would let my readers know just what I am looking for in a candidate.

I am always ask what I tend to do if I do not support either party and mostly recently by a very loyal reader, Nan….so to let everyone know just what it is I am looking for in a candidate I am re-post something I wrote almost 20 years years ago…

 

Professor, What Do You Believe In?

As you can see I am very particular on what I want from a candidate….and I have been disappointed in everything the Dems have done and said in the past 30 years….they are failing the American people all in the name of donors.

Any questions?

Go vote and help make America a better place….I hope….

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

If Dems Win–What Then?

Tomorrow is the big day….we go to our polling stations and cast our vote for the candidate we like…and if the ‘pundits’ are right (which are seldom happenings) and the Dems win big in Congress what can we expect?

Most readers know what I think of the corporate Dems we have now and what they are not capable of doing.

First the bold face lies from the Right of Dems and socialism is just plain ignorance speaking….and the reason why is that Dems hate the Left and have for many years….

“I would rather the Republicans keep the House by five than the Democrats win by five, because if that happens, they’re hostage to the DSA. Hakeem cannot move. There’s no place for him to go.” – James Carville

Polls indicate that Democrats can win control of the House of Representatives in the November 3, 2026 mid-term elections. If accurate, left leaning Democrats may win some of those seats and those victories would mean that voters are looking for progressive change. But James Carville, eminence grise of conservative Democrats, wants to disempower them and their voters before any of them even get to Washington. So great is his antipathy that he would prefer a Republican victory to giving the left any opportunity to give Democratic Party voters what they want.

Carville had famously said of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), “I wish they’d take the word Democrat out of their name. I have no idea why the democratic socialists — if you hate the Democratic Party so much, well, then don’t use our godd*mn. Go think of your own name.” The tantrum may have been silly but the intent was deadly serious. The Democratic Party will not permit any possibility of change, and even small reforms have been declared off limits. Just in case there was any confusion, Carville said so in public in a conversation with right winger Bill Kristol.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-democratic-party-still-hates-the-left/

Carville is a loud mouth dinosaur that needs to climb back in the hole from which he came…..and let progress move forward we have had enough of his ilk with the corporate Dems we have now.

But the question is if Dems win, what then?

Much to the hope and fear of progressive Democrats and Republicans alike, if the Democrats win control of the U.S. Congress this November, do not expect socialism to be enacted into law.

Increasingly, Donald Trump and the Republicans are using the dirty word of socialism against Democrats, much as they have engaged in red baiting for decades. Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden have all been accused of being socialists, if not communists. Apparently, anyone who disagrees with Republicans is now a socialist. But the political effectiveness of this accusation is changing.

Millennials and Generation Z did not grow up during the McCarthy era or the Cold War. They do not necessarily associate socialism with the same stigma that shaped the political attitudes of the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, and perhaps even Generation X. Moreover, capitalism is not working particularly well for many younger Americans. They confront skyrocketing housing prices, expensive healthcare, crushing educational debt, and the disappearance of the American Dream. Now they face artificial intelligence potentially eliminating the jobs they hoped would provide economic security. For them, socialism no longer sounds so frightening. It might even sound appealing.

This helps explain the popularity of politicians such as Bernie Sanders and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. They offer alternatives to a winner-take-all capitalist economy that has produced extraordinary concentrations of wealth and economic inequality. Yet even if Democrats win both the House and Senate, the prospects for enacting anything resembling socialism are exceedingly slim.

Read On….

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/10/28/if-the-democrats-win-what-then/

For me the more actual progressives, the Left if we so desire, the better off the people of this country will be….with enough maybe they can find a way to light fires under the more spineless among them.

Anyone see it differently?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

The Death Of The Corporate Dems?

Just a few days before the polls open and people rush to vote….

I have made my thoughts clear that Bubba Clinton and his DLC group killed the Democratic Party for that was when they became no better than the GOP in their embracing of corporate donors.

But I am told be some that those days of Dems sucking up to corporate donors is drawing to a close….

Most discussions about the Democratic Party in this election cycle focus on the remarkable rise of progressive Democrats (such as Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist who yesterday scored an upset win in the Democratic contest for the Florida Senate).

An equally big story is the remarkable decline of corporate Democrats.

Some Democrats worry about this. My old friend Democratic strategist James Carville compares the current wave of progressive primary wins to progressive campaigns in 2016 — especially that of Bernie Sanders — that he believes fractured the Democratic coalition.

“Bernie Sanders is the reason that Donald Trump is president,” Carville said recently, claiming that Bernie’s primary challenge to Hillary Clinton convinced voters in battleground states that establishment Democrats were no different from establishment Republicans, thereby weakening her prospects in the general election.

Even if James is right about 2016 (and I don’t believe he is) his assessment is irrelevant now because we’re at a radically different point in American politics than we were 10 years ago.

The silver lining on the dark storm cloud of Trump and his detestable regime is that it has exposed the greed, venality, cupidity, and corruption of America’s corporate elite.

https://www.alternet.org/progressive-democrats-2677726334/

Sorry but I do not see those days being over….just a reset and a new way to get their graft.

On a side note:  James Carville was an proponent of the Dems switching from representing the people to sucking up to corporations….he is a dinosaur and a very vocal one….progressives are sick to this twat and his mouth….

The “Ragin’ Cajun” first rose to national prominence in 1991 by encouraging Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, who had just announced his presidential bid, to point out to a strapped country that the economy wasn’t doing so hot. At the same time, Carville encouraged Democrats to carve up the welfare state that was buoying Americans taking the brunt of the economic downturn. Democrats had been locked out of the White House since 1980, and they were willing to try anything to win. These counterintuitive policy solutions were assumed to be smart, and Clinton’s victory in November 1992 proved it. Carville was a kingmaker, and his “please nobody” politics were the Democratic Party’s future.

A congressional wash-out just two years later couldn’t knock the bloom off the Third Way rose among Washington’s Democratic consultant class. Carville’s reputation for colorful turns of phrase, and his tendency to stomp on any calls for the party to move left, made him a favorite of cable news programmers looking to make entertaining television.

Now 81, Carville has remained a stock choice for cheap heat, even as his positions became more predictable, such as a recent slam on left-wing media personality Hasan Piker in which he called the streamer a “raving antisemite” due to Piker’s opposition to America’s support of Israel and his comment that he would “vote for Hamas over Israel every single time.” As progressives and democratic socialists have notched recent wins across the country, Carville has been there to tell the activist wing of the Democratic Party to pipe down and tack toward Republican stances on issues like transgender rights and police reform.

https://www.salon.com/2026/08/14/time-for-james-carville-to-sit-down-and-shut-up/

I agree….it is time for him to sit down and STFU.

It is time for a change….we have had nothing but conservs running this country and they came from both sides of the aisle….it is time for real change and the status quo will not bring about.

Am I wrong?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

BiBi Pulls A Donny

The Israeli election has been a close one but it appears that BiBi may have pulled it off…..but he is blaming the Arab parties for the closeness of the turn out to the point of claiming vote fraud by these parties…..

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said rival Arab parties cheated in his country’s elections after exit polls indicated his coalition failed to capture a majority in the Knesset, pushing the Middle Eastern democracy into a political deadlock.

Netanyahu’s Likud party and its allies outperformed expectations on Tuesday. But with results still trickling in on Wednesday evening, the prime minister failed to keep his majority in the Israeli parliament. There is still no clear winner. The opposition bloc, led by Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party, remains Likud’s top rival. But two Arab parties, the Joint List and Ra’am, outperformed as they gained seats, drawing historic support as they are to win their largest-ever share of the vote.

Netanyahu said the Arab parties had stolen the election, claiming they are guilty of criminal offenses of bribery, threats, violence, forgeries, and the use of prohibited software to mobilize voters.

Does that sound at all familiar?

It should….he is pulling a Donny by accusing opponents of voter fraud.

He has been a lying POS for decades and will do whatever it takes to stay in power.

But his antics and accusations are turning ex-supporters off….

Ronald Lauder, the American billionaire who heads the World Jewish Congress and was once a close confidant of Benjamin Netanyahu, has accused the Israeli prime minister of sacrificing opportunities for peace to protect his political career.

In an interview with Haaretz published last week, ahead of the Israeli elections, the longstanding supporter of Israel described his disillusionment with Netanyahu, claiming he abandoned a negotiated peace agreement with Syria and Lebanon in the late 1990s despite having approved its terms.

The former ambassador also accused Netanyahu of undermining democracy and empowering far-right ministers whose policies are damaging Israel’s relationships with Arab neighbours, western governments and Jewish communities abroad.

“He chose politics over peace. He put his political future before the deal,” Lauder said of the negotiations with Syria. “That’s where he lost me. I saw him afterward, but it was never the same. He betrayed me.”

The comments come from a figure who helped Netanyahu build influential connections in the US and spent decades supporting Israeli institutions and Jewish organisations worldwide.

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By Thursday morning, with roughly 91 percent of votes counted, his bloc was projected to win 53 seats, against 48 for Yashar party leader Gadi Eisenkot’s camp and 19 for parties representing Palestinian citizens of Israel, leaving neither main bloc with the 61 seats needed for a majority.

Netanyahu could retain power by securing opposition defections or negotiating a unity government, potentially excluding his far-right allies. If coalition talks fail, another election could follow, allowing him to remain caretaker prime minister in the meantime.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/netanyahu-chose-politics-over-peace-former-confidant-ronald-lauder-says

If BiBi is to remain he must put together a coalition and you can bet he will hit up the Right for support and if he gets it then it will be all out genocide against Palestinians….

This is really a sad turn for the region and the especially for the Arabs that stand in Israel’s way to a mini empire in the Levant.

Dark days are coming for the region.

Update:

Israel’s election is over, but the wrangling to form a new government is just beginning. Final tallies show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc taking 53 of 120 Knesset seats, while Gadi Eisenkot’s camp captured 48—leaving both short of the 61 needed to govern. Netanyahu’s bloc had a majority of 68 seats in the previous Knesset. The results must still be certified and handed to President Isaac Herzog next week, after which he’ll tap the politician he thinks is likeliest to assemble a coalition, NBC News reports.

  • Netanyahu’s Likud party will remain the largest in the Knesset with 27 seats, down from 32. Eisenkot’s centrist Yashar party, founded last year, will be the second-largest, with 21

The real shake-up: parties representing Israel’s Arab minority won 19 seats amid record turnout from Palestinian citizens of Israel, positioning them as potential kingmakers. Yet both main blocs have said they won’t partner with the two largest Arab factions, Ra’am and the Joint List. Yair Golan, leader of the small, left-wing Democrats party, is openly urging a coalition that includes them. Protesters gathered outside Eisenkot’s home on Thursday, calling for him to partner with Israeli Arab parties to prevent Netanyahu from serving another term, France24 reports.

After Herzog chooses a candidate, they will have 28 days to try to assemble a majority, plus a possible 14-day extension, the New York Times reports. If the weeks of negotiations ahead fail to produce a government, Israel will face another election early next year, a scenario that Herzog says he will do everything in his power to avoid, the AP reports. Likud has alleged, without evidence, that the election was “stolen” by the Arab parties, reports Politico. In a post on X Friday, Netanyahu said it is “forbidden” to form a coalition with Arab parties.

What will BiBi do?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”