A new coalition even more extreme than the last

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/10/israel-election-netanyahu-appears-on-track-for-victory-despite-tied-result

Netanyahu appears on track for victory 

Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be on course to be re elected as Prime Minister of Israel. With 97%of the votes counted, he and General Benny Grantz, leader of the Blue and White party Netanyahu's main rival for the Premiership, have each won 35 seats in the 120 seat Knesset.However, due to the complexities of the Israeli electoral system and the political balance in the country, Netanyahu seems certain to be able to form another coalition to keep him in power for another 4 years. Netanyahu will, as he has done to date, be able to draw support from the extreme right, nationalists and religious parties who historically have supported and promoted the expansion and creation of Israeli settlements on the West Bank and other areas of occupied Palestine. The parties likely to prop up the Netanyahu Likud party would be the New Right headed by Naftali Bennett who is  infamous for his extremist views on Palestinians and the now discredited "Two State" solution. Shas, Jewish Home, United Torah Judaism and a few other parties of the extreme right or ultra orthodox religious parties,will ensure  that Netanyahu's anti Palestinian policies will continue and become even more provocative. He has already promised that should he win the election, Israel will annex all of the Israeli settlements, including those in Jerusalem and absorb them into the Israeli state. This act in itself ensures that there can be no viable Palestinian state at any time in the future and condemns the region into an endless round of violence as each side wages strike and counter strike against the other. In respect of Gaza The measures of blockade by land and sea  will only intensify as the new Israeli government seeks to exert pressure on the embattled enclave and demonstrate that it has the power and the intention of destroying the Palestinian people. The new Israeli government emerging from the election, promises to be the most extreme and the most oppressive one to date. The world should recognise that we have entered a new and most dangerous period, even more dangerous than any before.

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Northern Ireland and Brexit. The return of "The Troubles"

Northern Ireland: police attacked in another night of disturbances | Northern Ireland | The Guardian When the "Brexit" debate was still filling our newspapers and our television screens, readers may remember why I had changed my mind since voting to leave at the referendum vote. Apart from the economic arguments, which had become crystal clear after peeling away all the lies and misrepresentations trotted out by Bozo Boris and his "Get Brexit Done" conspirators, there was always the problem of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Would it be possible to have a border between the European Union and the United Kingdom where people, goods and services could pass freely between the two nations without customs restrictions, tariffs, duties and all the other formalities? Would it be possible to have one part of the United Kingdom treated differently from other parts of the United Kingdom, particularly when Scotland for example had voted overwhe

Plemont development or return to nature?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey- A date has been set for a public inquiry into plans for Plemont Headland. This exceptional location must be sold to the National trust for Jersey, and returned to nature. Any other outcome involving development of the site, can only demonstrate the extent to which greed and self interest have become endemic in Jersey.

The Parliamentary Labour Party conspirators are hatching another coup.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/corbyn-labour-leadership-rebel-mps-a7202641.html Labour MPs plan for Corbyn victory and plot how to confront an emboldened leader Even for the "Independent", the number and use of unnamed anonymous "sources" in this article is quite astonishing. However, amongst all the usual speculative delusion, there is one factor which causes concern to anyone who believes in the Labour Party, its principles and in he democratic process of the Labour movement. It is abundantly clear that elements within the Parliamentary Labour Party, are even now, planning another coup in the event that Jeremy Corbyn should emerge as winner in the current ballot. The failed coup of earlier this year, has now descended into a sham leadership election, because the conspirators still fail to accept the democratic decision of the Labour party membership and cling to

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