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A momentous election ?




 Israeli election 2013


 Latest poll predicts:
LIKUD: Benjamin Netanyahu. 34 members.
YISRAEL BEITEINU: Avigdor Lieberman. (running in joint list with Likud)
HABAYIT HAYEHUDI: Naftali Bennett. 14 members.
A predicted total of 48  out of a Knesset of 120 members.
It would only require a further 13 members to form a coalition for government (61 members required).
The UNITED TORAH JUDAISM and SHAS are predicted to have 17 members between them.

The current state of these parties is:
LIKUD: 27 seats.
YISRAEL BEITEINU: 15 seats.
HABAYIT HAYEHUDI: (originally formed by a merger of the Jewish Home,  National Religious Party, Moledet and Tkuma in November 2008.) 3 seats.
UNITED TORAH JUDAISM and SHAS: 16 seats.




























 Avigdor Lieberman   Benjamin Netanyahu                                                  Naftali Bennett.



Should these predictions be turned into actual results, the world will be presented on January 23rd 2013 the day after polling day, with the most right wing coalition government that Israel has ever produced and incidentally a coalition holding an increased majority in the Knesset. With the rhetoric and actions over the past months of Netanyahu, Lieberman and Bennett, it is clearly the intention to expand the settlement programme, annex the West Bank, to further isolate Gaza and to accelerate the programme of ethnic cleansing in the occupied areas of Palestine. The middle east will become, overnight, a significantly more dangerous place than it is today, with an Israel hell bent on expansion and with a United States unwilling or unable to rein in the maverick state. The prospect of a "Two State" solution is dead, if it ever existed in the first place, the Quartet on the Middle East, with its "Special Envoys" has proved to be an impotent talking shop more interested in seeking Palestinian acceptance of Israeli demands than actually attempting to resolve the situation and the ongoing tensions between Israel and Iran appear to be insoluble as ever.That is without even considering the situation with Syria, Lebanon and Turkey.
The year of our civilisation 2013, could be the most momentous year of this or perhaps any other century of our collective history and much of it will determined by the votes of some 5.5 million eligible voters and the decision in electing the 19th Israeli Knesset on January 22nd. .
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