Why Israeli Elections Never End

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Media Takes And Election Reality

SPEAKER_01 0:06

So, you know, ladies and gentlemen, fucking media. That's all I can say. Whether you're on whether you're a social influencer or whether you're uh really a media, there's this incredible, incredible, incredible focus on the Israeli elections. It's off the charts, crazy. And a lot of people are doing victory laps today that Netanyahu lost the election. People, you don't understand the Canadian, the Israeli system then. No one in Israeli history has ever won a majority, ever won a majority since its rebirth in 1948. I'll say it again. No one has ever won a majority. Every government has been a coalition. In fact, the right and the left had a coalition years ago in the late 90s, Stuart, working together to avoid, you know, to have a government and not go to another election. So, with all due respect to all you geniuses out there who are giving Eisencott or anybody else the victory and whatever, you're too early.

SPEAKER_00 1:07

It's premature. All

Three Storylines Collide After Voting

SPEAKER_00 1:10

right, all right, all right. Let's get a thesis going here. Israel does held a free contested democratic election under literal shadows of terrorism. And within hours, three things happen titaneously.

Simultaneously. Three Israeli left revealed it's willing to govern with anti-Zion Arab fractions to claw back power. A jihadist tried to murder a police officer in Israel's embassy in Serbia while screaming Allah Akbar. Sitting Israeli minister had despine to call the anti-Zion coalition team exactly what it is.

The whole story is a miniature Israel defends itself from enemies outside its borders and apologists inside its own political class. On the same news cycle, go figure. Israel held an election yesterday. A terrorist tried to kill a cop, right?

And the parties are trying to seize power. Welcome to the only country on earth that has to win a war and an election at the same time, every single time. Kind of funny. Netanyahu block leads after 4 million votes counted.

With over 4 million votes, Netanyahu is projected to enter the Knesset with 54 seats against the opposing block of 49. With the Arab parties projected to reach 19 seats. Take a pause. Apartheid fucking believers here.

19 seats are Arab parties. Where's the apartheid, you fucking morons? Isengard was rejected serving under Netanyahu in an arrangement, and other opposition leaders have also ruled out joining Netanyahu-led coalition, raising the Spectre deadlock for a fifth election. But again, this is typical Israeli politics.

Nothing different here, guys. The take is this is a country that keeps choosing Netanyahu and security first block, no matter how many times the Western newsroom declares them finished. The man Washington's media class loves to write the obituary, keeps outperforming the exit polls. Notice who can't win without begging for help.

The change block. It needs anti-Zionist parties to get to 65. That's not a governing coalition, that's a hostage negotiation with Israel's own sovereignty at risk. And that's desperation for Arab Party votes.

Didn't stay quiet for long. By Wednesday morning, the opposition's own chairman saying quiet part loud. Kikili blasts, golden anti-Zionist coalition pitch. The Democrats, Jair Golin, said Israel must no longer accept Netanyahu's racist division between Jews' votes and Arab votes, arguing citizens vote in tape counts exactly as much as Pivad Schmuel and declared Netanyahu's loss because the combined opposition plus Arab Party bloc of 65 outnumbers Netanyahu's 55.

Diaspora Affairs Minister Ahmed Kiliki fires back, calling the Democrats are in practice Canonites, anti-Zionist party in a post on X. Chiquili said, What half the Western commentaries is too scared to say. When your governing strategy required partnering with parties that don't recognize Jewish state legitimacy, you're not pursuing democracy, you're laundering anti-Zionism through parliamentary math. Golan wants to frame the ultra-orthodox and Arab nationalists' votes as a non-Zionist.

He's entitled to combine. That's not inclusion, that's a coalition built on erasing what the country is by definition. Israel's own left was sheeming to the court anti-Zionist partners. The consequence of normalizing anti-Zionist rhetoric playing out six time zones away.

Finally, you get a jihadist killed outside an Israeli embassy. An assailant armed with two knives attacked a Serbian grenadier officer guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade shortly after midnight, screaming Al Akbar, while slashing the officer in the face before the officer fatally shot him in self-defense. The interior minister said authorities are treating it as a terrorist attack, noting they attacked or supported ISIS and had displayed the group's black flag on his Instagram. The attack came just hours after the Israeli election exips initially pointed no clear winner.

This is the backdrop. Nobody on both sides of the media wants to print next to the Knesset coverage. The morning after the Israelis' vote, a self-declared ISIS supporter tried to murder a police officer specifically because he was the officer guarding a Jewish embassy. This is the second attack of the same embassy since a crossbow-wielding mental retard wounded an officer there at 24.

Israeli embassies are now standing terror targets worldwide again. And Serbia has to raise its national threat level to the maximum just to keep up. This is actual physical stakes of anti-Zionism that Yair Golan wants to build a coalition around. It's not an abstract, an academic position.

It's a loaded knife at an embassy gate. The media line will be Israeli democracy in crisis deadlock, and right wing ministers attack a political rival's legitimacy. Both frames bury lead. A fourth consecutive competitive election with no single party near a majority is a democracy functioning exactly as it was designed to.

How The Knesset Coalition Math Works

SPEAKER_00 9:32

There we go.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

There we go. I mean, people want to shut me up because Stuart, what I'm about to do is just like rip, rip, rip, rip, rip. Okay, morons, let's get with the program here. He started by saying, you guys don't understand Israeli election. Israeli knew it is 120 seats. And you actually vote for a party, not individuals, you vote for party. Not like in the US and Canada, where you vote for a person, you're or a prime minister or a president, you're voting for a party. And the party must submit a list of its candidates who are going to, based on the percentage of the vote that you get, that's how many seats you get. So as you wake up this morning and you might see if you actually care, and you'll see, oh, I have 120 seats. Netanyahu only got between 25 and 30 according to the last count. He's lost. He didn't. He's actually leading. Because in Israel, ladies and gentlemen, it's not about a two-party system or a five-party system like we have in Canada. It's a 30-plus party system. Every idiot there is wants to be prime minister. Even the people you've been hearing names like Smotrich and Ben Vir, they all have their own parties because they all want to be kingmakers. Because the most powerful person in a coalition is the one who makes you the leader, the kingmaker, the prime minister, the president, whatever the coalition is. That's how Israel has been working since her rebirth. So to sit here today and take a victory lap that Isencott has won or other left parties have won is not even right. It's far-fetched and it's premature. It could take months before we know who is actually the prime minister of Israel. That's the crazy part.

Turnout Arab Parties And Apartheid Claims

SPEAKER_01 11:14

But here's something else I'm going to share with you folks. 78%, 77.7, if you want, of Israelis went out and voted yesterday. That's more than the American election. That's more than the people who are going to go out to your midterm elections.

That is what Israelis are all about. They want to vote, they want to take part in a democracy. And two million Arabs were invited to do the same. Israeli Arabs.

They voted. And as of today, the estimate is that they could take almost 15% of the seats in the Knesset. Oh, yeah, is that apartheid people? Come on.

All you accusers out there who say Israel's an apartheid state, explain to me how many people you saw, how many hijabs were at the polling station, how many Muslims came to the polling station to vote for Arab parties? Could you imagine, Stuart, in the United States, a Chinese party? Imagine the CCP running against the Democrats and the Republicans and winning some 30 seats in Congress. It would be unheard of.

That's Israel. And that's what people don't get. So what do people say? Why can't Palestinians vote for an Israeli election?

I'm sorry. That's like asking me as a Canadian, why can't I vote in the American election? I'm not an American citizen. Palestinians are not Israelis.

Get over your delusion that Palestinians can go anywhere and do anything, but not in your country, only in Israel. Israel has to give in to every idiot idea out there. Oh, and by the way, to put Stewart's point, Mahmoud Abbas was supposed to have an election this year. Mahmoud Abbas, who was on his millionth year of his sixth of his four-year term, is still in power and you're yelling at Israel for not allowing Palestinians to vote.

But when Mahmoud Abbas cancels elections, you're all quiet. To quote the Canadian government, we're disappointed. But you're gonna give shit to Israelis for not allowing Palestinians to vote. Are you okay to allow Chinese people to vote from China into the American election?

No. Russians? No. But Palestinians?

Yeah, sure. No problem. You're all fucked up. You're all screwed up to believe this.

Ladies and gentlemen, Israel is the only democracy surrounded by autocracies. One-party systems in Egypt, one party system in Syria, one party system in other in all these other countries. But you're shitting on Israel for not being democratic enough. Because it's overly democratic, we can't get a majority government.

You have to have coalitions. So get off the case and stop beating up on Israel because you want to turn Israel from a right-wing government to a left-wing government.

Palestinian Voting Myths And Closing Takeaways

SPEAKER_01 14:10

You want to stop this whole thing with the Palestinians? Get the Palestinians to the table. Stop demanding Israel to concede everything to accommodate a country, a group of people that are not interested. You've got a leadership there between the Palestini Authority and Hamas and all the rest of them that are not interested in a two-state solution, but you're still pushing it. And you have Israeli left craving power, still talking about a two-state solution. And even in Israel, the answer is after October 7th, really? Is that really what we're we're talking about? Israelis want peace for God's sake, Stuart. They don't want this nonsense. But the world can't get off of this hard-on that they get with Israel. It's just fascinating.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

David, there's an age-old cliche. If the Arabs, Palestinians dropped their weapons into the sea, there'd be peace forevermore. If the Israelis drop their weapons in the sea, from the river to the sea, there would be no the.

SPEAKER_01 16:26

In Israel, the socialists, the communists, the right wing, the centers, they're all sitting at the table together because they have no choice. They have to work together for the betterment of the people, not like you guys do in the US. So, folks, get off Israel already, will you? All right, I'm killing it.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

David. All right, guys. See you guys Friday.