Israel Election Results Thus Far: Israelis Are Bibi's Willing Executioners

by Scott Creighton 

As of 9am Weds. Oct 28th here are the election results from Israel thus far.

Turnout at close of the polls was 77.7% considerably higher than the 70% from 2022. 

The adjusted exit polls suggest a dead heat between Netanyahu's Likud party and Eisenkot's Yashar but they both actually represent the same thing.

More war, more genocide and more land-grabbing to keep the Jabotinsky Revisionist Zionists happy.

In the wake of the results each claim victory with Netanyahu saying he is going to form a strong right wing government and promises to regime change Iran while Gadi Eisenkot promises to form a Zionist government with mandatory service for all (yes, he's talking about the Rabbinical students having to serve in the IDF)

If it doesn't sound like there is a dime's worth of difference between the two, you heard it right. They are carbon copies of each other when it comes to genocide and ethnic cleansing with perhaps the only difference being Gadi lost a son to the genocide while Bibi's kid does shit ton of blow in Miami. 

This is not too say the Netanyahu party Likud didn't pay a price for trying to get Iran to bomb Israel before the election in order to stay in power. They lost a number of seats in the Knesset and the majority they had enjoyed. But it may not be enough to drive Bibi out of office and into the waiting arms of prosecutors.

State of the Elections: U.S. and Israel

State of the Elections: U.S. and Israel 

Direct Support  

So the Last Will be First: Election Rigging Pattern in America Inc. (archive)

(archived from January 22, 2012)

by Scott Creighton

“So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”  Mathew 20:16

How are selected presidents currently marketed to the U.S. population through the artifice of the election process in a way that leaves most with the comfortable illusion that we still have a democratic process that still answers to the will of the people?

What history shows us is that Newt Gingrich did not win South Carolina as much as Barack Obama has been selected to occupy the White House for 4 more years. So who was the big winner in South Carolina yesterday? Barack Obama and his neoliberal bosses who apparently need his special brand of left cover for 4 more years.

Allow me to explain.

Newt Gingrich will win the Republican nomination after a close race with either Rick Santorum or Mitt Romney and then he will lose to Barack Obama in the general election of 2012. How do I know this? It’s already happened. Twice.

bin Laden’s “Digital” Bookshelf – Tying “Conspiracy Theorists” and Thought Criminals to al Qaeda (archive)

(archived from May 20, 2015)

by Scott Creighton

“Conspiracy theorists” have been providing aid and comfort to al Qaeda by simply asking questions? investigating beyond the BS that the MSM reports from their “official sources”? That seems to be the implication.

The U.S. government is releasing this week the list of English language texts that were recovered from Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan compound after the U.S. raid that killed the al Qaeda leader in 2011…

“In terms of the materials that are there, some of the things that we’ve found to be of note were that Bin Laden was probably an avid conspiracy theorist,” Buzz Feed

It was bound to happen.

The propagandists who brought us the “death of bin Laden story” 1.0 and 2.0 (with Sy Hersh) have decided to finally go for broke by associating some of the biggest names in investigative journalism, critics of our imperial wars overseas and “conspiracy theorists” to the dreaded Osama bin Laden.

Basically anyone who writes or says anything bad about the glorious Big Brother party that is developing here and in Britain are on bin Laden’s “DIGITAL” reading list. His “digital” bookshelf.

What does that mean?

That means the powers that be have decided to exploit the new Sy Hersh bullshit story about “the truth” of the raid on the bin Laden compound (or maybe that’s why Sy’s stupid story came out in the first place) by releasing what they claim they found on disk drives or memory sticks. The fact that they are digital means they wont be able to find bin Laden’s actual fingerprints on an actual book of any kind.

Of course if you notice that, you’re a “conspiracy theorist”

In short, they can put any book or writing they want on that list. Anything they wish to be viewed in a certain light.

The English language list is republished below the fold and on it you will find a number of critics of our Global War of Terrorism along with folks like Bev Harris (exposed electronic voting machine rigging), John Perkins (economic hit-man), Michael Ruppert (great work in Crossing the Rubicon), David Ray Griffin (outstanding work on 9/11), Michel Chossudovsky (anti-globalization), Eustace Mullins (exposing the Federal Reserve) and the usual slate of unpopular investigative journalists and activists like Greg Palast, William Blum and Noam Chomsky.

These apparently are today’s leading thought criminals.

“Election” Shifts D.C. Even Further Toward Reactionary Right with Still More Gridlock on the Horizon (archive)

(archived from November 5, 2014)

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: And the way for dems to compete next time around? Ignore your liberal base and make the “pragmatic” move by leaning further to the reactionary right:

In a media bubble where popular positions are often dismissed as politically dangerous by virtue of their progressive origins, pundits frequently press Democrats to embrace a roster of centrist positions that are actually unpopular. Indeed, as political strategist David Sirota pointed out (Washington Post, 6/11/06), pundit-approved Democrats frequently embrace politically unpopular ideas, from the Iraq War to NAFTA-style trade deals”  Fair.org

———

Every couple of years, here in the states, we practice our special brand of “democracy” during which we are treated to a gaggle of millionaire and billionaire demagogues running around pretending to give a crap about the general population while simultaneously demonizing anyone who isn’t considered in their camp or the poor, the homeless, the unemployed, the disabled, labor unions, uppity teachers… well, you get the idea.

That’s not just one political party, that’s both. It’s called the Washington Consensus or the “Business Party” as I like to call it.

We have “elections” where folks supposedly get to choose between one super-rich member of the Business Party or the other or vote on various pieces of legislation on electronic voting machines. I’m not going to bother explaining my concerns over electronic voting machines. They are notoriously insecure and as one might understand when one learns they were pushed on us in 2002 by a Bush/Cheney plan called the “Help America Vote act” (after the 2000 was stolen by Bush/Cheney), they are insecure because they were designed to be insecure. For more info on that, go read BradBlog or Bev Harris’ site Black Box voting.

Yesterday we repeated our constitutionally mandated Kabuki Theater production of “freedom and democracy” and the results were understandably predictable:

Timshel (archive)

(archived from August 7, 2007)

by Scott Creighton 

It is neither noble nor patriotic to accept governance at face value; to acquiesce to authority for comforts sake. Diligence is the duty of the democratic. It is the responsibility of all who reside in the free republic to guard those freedoms from every potential usurper, both foreign and domestic, for not only their own liberty, but for the historical integrity of the institution itself. For our time is limited here and we are but day-players in an ongoing epic like those millions who came before and the countless who will endure long after we have moved on, it is their history we write today with our strength or our surrender.

Long and bitter is the history of our conflicted species. And as it was written in the beginning and recorded across thousands of miles and hundreds of religions, mammon shall be the root of our inevitable collapse. Its lure separates us from our humanity, from each other, and from our Gods. What was beautiful becomes hollow. What was noble becomes weakness. What was false is true.  All else pales in its ambition. For this is the ambition of wealth itself. No longer do the greedy control their master, they are its slaves and it washes over them like a raging tide, sweeping them into collusion and deceit, both trivial and horrible, they would never have imagined as idealistic, younger men.

Netanyahu Pushed for Attack on Iran Ahead of Israeli Election, Officials Say

from the NYT

 

In advance of Israel’s pivotal election on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought for weeks to orchestrate a new airstrike on Iran but ran into resistance from the military’s chief of staff, according to three senior Israeli defense officials and three other people briefed on the matter.

Then, over the past few days, the chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, became concerned that Mr. Netanyahu had begun pushing for a separate action against Iran, short of an overt strike, according to an Israeli official and a person briefed on the matter, neither of whom described the nature of such an action. General Zamir believed that this would be a miscalculation that could provoke Iran into attacking Israel.

Spokesmen for Mr. Netanyahu did not respond immediately to requests for comment.

The Israeli officials and the people briefed on the deliberations spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Mr. Netanyahu’s rationale for pressing to attack Iran before the election was not clear, but a return to war could have potentially disrupted or even delayed the vote...

read more here 

Israel’s election result unlikely to shift Palestine, Mideast policies

from Daily Sabah

As Israel votes in a pivotal election Tuesday, political analysts and regional policymakers caution that no matter who emerges victorious, the country’s core policies toward the Palestinians, Iran and its position within Middle East are unlikely to experience any significant change.

With polls showing a close contest between incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot, both figures are campaigning on hard-line security platforms and share a host of strategic priorities – most notably, maintaining military pressure on Iran and denying Palestinian statehood.

That consensus, analysts argue, stems at least in part from the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas incursion and the Israeli genocidal war it triggered, while neighboring Lebanon and Iran became increasingly embroiled on the periphery.

"If Netanyahu is elected, he'll do whatever he thinks he wants to do," said Aviv Bushinsky, a former adviser to Netanyahu. "Expansion of the settlements will continue. The wars against Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah will continue. What you see now is what you'll see after the election, maybe even more aggressively. As long as Iran is in such a situation, it's a waste of time talking about Palestine."...

read more here 

Netanyahu says 'they're trying to steal the election', attacks Arab parties

from Naharnet

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday renewed his attacks on Arab parties, warning after casting his ballot that "they're trying to steal the election" after reports that individuals were arrested with envelopes of cash.

Netanyahu -- who has used Arab-Israeli parties throughout the election to stoke fears of a Palestinian state -- said that three senior officials of the Raam party had been arrested with envelopes full of cash in the south.

"We cannot leave this battle here in the hands of the left and the Arab parties that want to bring an end to the Jewish state," Netanyahu said...

read more here 

Likud hires crews to film Arab voters, prepping ‘rigged vote’ campaign

from al Mayadeen English

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is preparing to station crews outside polling sites in what is designated as "Arab areas" on Tuesday to film voters, Haaretz reported, noting that the footage could later be used to back up claims of election fraud should the party fare badly at the ballot box.

Likud has poured millions of shekels into hiring and paying staff who will watch polling locations in "Arab areas", videotape people casting ballots, and send live updates to party headquarters, as per the report.

These crews were put together over the past few weeks. Because they will stand outside the polling stations instead of inside, they fall outside the tight rules that apply to formal election observers...

read more here