Can Bibi Hold it Together?

Carol Glick predicted that the execution of the BHO’s Cairo Speech is part of an agenda to discredit Prime Minister Netanyahu then implement meddling in Israel’s internal politics to bring down Netanyahu’s Likud coalition government. This would enable Obama-friendly and Palestine State-friendly Kadima led by Tzipi Livni to create the global Leftist agenda of creating a sovereign Palestine nation.

A sovereign Palestine would not decrease Middle Eastern violence, rather such an Arab abomination would another bullet in the gun aimed at Israel with the intention of the Jewish State’s destruction.

Shmuel Rosner has put together a series of quotes that measures the outcome of an Obama agenda to bring down the Netanyahu government.

JRH 6/8/09

Obama's Arabian dreams

Caroline Glick critiques President Barack Hussein Obama’s Cairo Speech. Her theme is that BHO is portrays Israel in an evil light and the Arabs that call themselves Palestinians as the moral equivalent of America’s Black slavery past.

As you read Glick keep this in the back of your mind. She points out that BHO Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emmanuel worked closely to discredit Prime Minister Netanyahu’s first stint as the Prime Minister of Israel while he was an advisor to President Clinton. She senses that Emmanuel is already at work to undermine Netanyahu by working Likud enemies in the Kadima Party and with Leftist American Jews. This implies using the Left propaganda machine to implant into Americans and Israelis that the “peace at all costs” mindset is the only way peace will come to the Middle East. This mindset of course is counter to Judeo-Christianity theologically and will politically quite possibly lead to the destruction of Israel.

JRH 6/6/09

Obama and Israeli Left Join Forces to Israel’s Detriment

Caroline Glick has written an awesome essay relating to the political traps up coming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces from the Left in Israel (viz., so-called centrist Kadima Party) and the Obama Administration.

The Obama Administration in particular is trying to force the issue of booting Jewish residents from the West Bank to enable a psycho-Arab State to become sovereign right on Israel’s door step. Further the Obama Administration is bent on Fatah (of Mahmoud Abbas) and Hamas (of Khalid Mashal [Hiding in fear in Syria] and Ismail Haniyeh [Gaza]) forming a unified government. This would force Israel to recognize Hamas as a legitimate negotiator in the delusional Two-State solution. Also it would entail America adding legitimacy to a transnational terrorist organization that doesn’t even pretend to ever recognize Israel to exist as a nation. Adding American legitimacy to Hamas would validate Iran sending arms, training and money to Hamas to further Iran’s hegemonic goals which include the destruction of Israel.

Concerning President Barack Hussein Obama people should not be surprised.

Look at BHO’s Arab and Hamas supporting friends in his social and political fund raising career:

· BHO (at least socially) hung out with Rashid Khalidi, the former mouthpiece for PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat.

· Rashid Khalidi inherited his mantle from Edward Said (or Sayyid) that used pro-Palestinian/Arab rhetoric couple with his anti-Western Magnum Opus “Orientalism” to castigate Israel’s legitimacy to exist.

· While running for President, one of BHO’s foreign policy advisors Robert O’Malley had to be fired for getting caught holding extensive talks with Hamas. Do you think O’Malley unilaterally embarked on those talks? Only a moron would believe that Barack Hussein Obama had nothing to do with it.

· It has been revealed recently that Barack Hussein Obama intends talks with Hamas which is a certified terrorist organization by the State Department. This is inline with BHO’s history of hanging around anti-Semites and pro-Palestinian Arabs (who desire the destruction of Israel.

I am guessing a huge confrontation is developing between the Obama Administration and the government of Israel’s Netanyahu. Netanyahu will skillfully sidestep Obama’s weakening of Israel agenda, cave-in to Obama’s pressure concerning Israeli security and/or allowing BHO to form yet another hostile rogue Islamic sovereign nation to be formed next door placing Israel back into a 1948 position of Islamic invasions to slam Jews into the sea.

JRH 2/28/09

The Netanyahu Right

Well it is official; Israel President Shimon Peres has officially asked Netanyahu to form the next Israeli government.

The fun part of Parliamentary politics is that Netanyahu’s Likud Party actually finished the Israeli elections one seat less than Livni’s Kadima Party; however the spectrum of political parties by the voters was overwhelmingly to the Slanted Right. Even though Netanyahu lost to his rival Tzipi Livni by Party seat count (28-Kadima and 27-Likud), the right wing bloc of parties was bolster by third place finisher Avigdor Lieberman of the Yisrael Beiteinu Party (English – Israel our Home). Thus including the other smaller Slanted Right secular and religious parties, Livni is the loser.

Netanyahu has six weeks to form a coalition government. Publicly Netanyahu wants to include Livni’s Kadima in a broad government however Livni has said that the potential differences in vision for Israel’s future means she will not join a Netanyahu led government.

Barring remarkable political negotiations it looks like Israel’s government may be a stark right wing vs. a stark left wing opposition.

There is one possibility that could isolate Livni and Kadima. Ehud Barak’s Labor Party (finished a dismal fourth) could opt to join a Netanyahu coalition. Livni would view this as a back stabbing betrayal to the Left’s cause of the delusion of giving away land to Arabs to form a sovereign Palestinian State banking on that bringing peace to Israel.

From modern Israel’s inception in 1948 through the Islamic terrorism of Arabs who wish to call themselves Palestinians demonstrate the Left thought process to be a delusion.

So here are the Netanyahu prospects with Livni’s Kadima:

1. Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu and the Slanted Right political parties hanging tight forming a slim majority government with a chomping at the heels Left opposition.
   
   
2. Or Likud, Yisrael Beiteinu, Labor and the Slanted Right political parties join together strengthening Netanyahu’s coalition to leave Kadima in the dirt.

In both scenarios that will place Netanyahu’s coalition at logger heads with the Obama Administration which has a vision more akin to Livni’s Kadima for Israel’s future and for the future of the Arab that call themselves Palestinians.

With the Middle East already a volatile place with the American military in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting a war on terror with Islamic terrorists (a terminology that BHO is intent to rename) matched with an adversarial Iran and Syria openly displaying hatred not only for America but for Israel as well; it will be interesting to watch the new dynamic of a Netanyahu government emerge.

JRH 2/20/09

Netanyahu Will NOT Divide Jerusalem

There is an election battle going on in Israel. The voting begins February 10. I wrote earlier that Netanyahu’s Likud Party though still head in the polls, is expected to barely have more seats than the current government of Kadima (formerly led by corrupt Ehud Olmert but now Tzipi Livni). The reason the long time favorite Netanyahu’s lead was shrinking is because of far Right Avigdor Lieberman candidate from the Yisrael Beiteinu Party. Lieberman has been surging in the polls.

I have learned recently that if Netanyahu wins he guarantees that Lieberman will have a prominent Ministry Portfolio in a Likud led government.

Government politics can be a fascinating thing to watch. When there are multiple political Parties that have a descent share of the Parliamentary seats (in this case called the Knesset) then coalitions must be developed in which blocs of Parties form the ruling government. I sense in Israel’s case the voters cast their lots for the Party that is Center Left or Center Right.

This means the Parties that are bit more on the Left/Right fringe are courted to make by the Center Left and the Center Right to form a majority government.

You can almost feel the smoke when Netanyahu speaks publicly saying that there will be a spot for far Right Yisrael Beiteinu (Lieberman) and almost Center Right Labor (Ehud Barak). This would leave avowed Centrist Party Kadima (although looking more and more Left since Sharon was incapacitated) nearly powerless.

In Parliamentary politics the final outcome is not really known until the coalitions are formed. Some of those coalitions will have Political Parties in them that have very divergent ideologies when all the smoke clears.

Now back to Benjamin Netanyahu: His Likud stand is that if elected, Israel will not give up the Golan Heights and will NOT divide Jerusalem with a potential Palestinian government.

For Christian Zionists as I am, Lieberman in a Netanyahu government solidifies Jerusalem not being divided.

JRH 2/8/09 (From Prophecy Update)

Right Wing Politics Messing up Netanyahu

I have been praying that Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party is the winner of Israel’s Parliamentary elections on February 10. The reason being Netanyahu as Prime Minister would slow down the land for peace delusion and maybe even prevent it.

Netanyahu’s reasoning might be different than mine.

Netanyahu is a man that place’s a premium on Israeli National Security as a path to continued Israeli existence. He understands that the Fatah and Hamas Islamic terrorists of the Palestinian Authority are untrustworthy due to ideology or corruption or both. It’s like dealing with the devil for peace and tranquility: old slew foot will promise the world, riches and protection then give you death and destruction. A Netanyahu victory on February 10 will more than likely throw a huge monkey wrench in America’s and Europe’s push for a Two-State solution between Israel and the Arabs that call themselves Palestinians.

My reasoning is a bit more radical and unacceptable even across the Left/Right spectrum of American politics and incredulously Slanted Left Jews of America and Israel.

My reasoning goes like this: God gave the Promised Land to the Hebrews (present day Jews) as the foundation to eventually re-unite the globe of humanity with its Creator. Orthodox or Observant Jews probably have a Judaic view how this will happen; however the New Testament Jesus quoted view of the Promised Land is Salvation is of the Jews. For me that means all that is promised to the Jews culminates in the Son of Man who is also the Son of God – Jesus Christ the imprint of the image of God in human form. Jerusalem will be the Messiah’s Capitol City (that is agreed upon both in Judaism and Christianity, it is the ‘who’ that is disagreed upon). The Messiah will bring harmony to humanity and humanity will have an experiential knowledge of God Almighty through the Messiah (in my case the Christ).

My reasoning prohibits those that deny the coming of the Messiah promised in the Old Testament (again, for me which culminates in the New Testament) from possessing the Land promised to the Jews.

Is Netanyahu on board with my reasoning? I suspect that is extremely doubtful; nonetheless the path leads the same way as long as Netanyahu resists Western dhimmitude and rejects Muslims who have the sole goal of destroying Jews from the Land of Israel.

Now here is the bad news for Benjamin Netanyahu. The polls have long had Likud ahead of the current ruling government of Kadima (the give the Land away crowd). As February 10 is approaching Tzipi Livni’s Kadima has narrowed the margin in large part to a growing popularity of a man further to the Right than Netanyahu - Avigdor Lieberman.

As Israeli voters are becoming attracted to Lieberman’s right wing views, votes are straying from Netanyahu. As the votes stray from Netanyahu, Livni’s Kadima Party gains strength to the incredulous possibility of retaining the majority to form a government under Tzipi Livni.

This is not good in my opinion.

Netanyahu apparently does not like a possible association to Lieberman for he fears the Israeli votes will view him as to far to the Right and thus lose votes. I believe if Netanyahu re-thinks that strategy and extend an arm of joint government to Lieberman, Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel is Our Home) Party could effectively remove the Kadima/Labor bloc in the Knesset making it even easier to show Israel’s determination to NOT be wiped off the map by Islamic radicals.

JRH 2/6/09

Can Netanyahu Reverse Olmert/Kadima Damage?

Likud Party Benjamin (or Binyamin) Netanyahu is expected to whup the current ruling Kadima Party headed by Tzipi Livni and disgraced by current caretaker Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel.

Ehud Olmert in an effort to comply with multiple Western governments’ opinion has sold out to the idea that the creation of a sovereign Palestinian State which includes giving up land acquired via defensive wars from multiple invading Islamic Arab nations.

The fallacy of this thinking is evident in continued terrorism more recently by Hamas and yet includes so-called managed Islamic terrorists of the Fatah dominated Palestine Authority.

Benjamin Netanyahu represents the Israeli voters that view the Ariel Sharon initiated “Disengagement” as an Israeli security problem (secular) and a dissolution of Israeli heritage (religious). Olmert continued this Disengagement to the point of booting out tens of thousands of Jewish settlers from their property in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza.

Livni is trying to draw an image of Netanyahu as a person that will make Israel so right wing that it will harm relations with America.

Netanyahu says his government will not be right wing.

Even if Netanyahu takes a moderate path, any derailment of the American driven goal of creating a sovereign Palestinian State will probably run awry of President Obama’s continued Bush endeavors concerning Palestine.

If Netanyahu adds some metal to his backbone to indeed stand up to an Obama Administration directive to make a State out of Israel’s mortal enemies, will Obama toss Israel to the Muslim wolves?

JRH 1/25/09

BHO Designs Set-Up for Israel’s Annihilation

A list of bad decisions by Prime Minister Olmert from mismanaging the defensive invasion of Lebanon to target Hezbollah, personally overseeing the forced eviction of Jews from Gaza, Judea and Samaria to make way for an incompatible Palestinian State and to Olmert’s corruption charges; has led to the unpopularity of his political party called Kadima.

Thus Olmert resigned from the PM Office. The Kadima Party held its internal elections and chose the current Foreign Minister to be the new leader of Kadima – Tzipi Livni. Livni would have become Prime Minister however she could not put together a working multi-Party coalition within the Knesset to form a government.

This leaves Olmert as Prime Minister until Israeli elections are held on February 10, 2009. The Olmert/Livni tag team of Israeli sell-outs are working feverishly to give up Israel’s heritage of not only the Judea/Samaria (West Bank) and Gaza, but also to relinquish the Holy City of David – Jerusalem – back to the very Arabs who deny there was a Jewish Temple and desire the extermination of Israel and Jews.

I would call Olmert/Livni a treasonous duo except they are convinced along with a lot of Western pressure (including President Bush and incoming President-Elect Obama) to believe such a sell will bring peace to the Middle East. So I don’t know which is worse: the aspect of treason or the aspect of self-delusion. The Palestinian ruling elites of the Palestine Authority and Hamas have never renounced to THEIR OWN people the idea of the destruction of Israel as part of their Charter to exist as Palestinians.

Now enters a former Prime Minister in Netanyahu. Netanyahu represents the Likud Party and is highly favored to win the majority on February 10, 2009. Netanyahu is not supportive of giving up Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights basically for security reasons. Netanyahu rightly observes there is a hostile enemy out there and it is not only Arabs that call themselves Palestinians, but it is a sea of hostile Muslim Arabs and Iranians.

Now here is the thing. President Bush has committed himself to this delusion of a Palestinian State will bring peace to the Middle East. On one hand not all the Bush advisors are in the tank as anti-Israel and pro-terrorist Palestinian. On the other hand President-Elect Obama is totally in the tank as a pro-Palestinian support the propaganda that Israel is an apartheid State forcing the Palestinian Arabs into poverty and horrible living conditions. It is so unbelievable that Americans voted for a man who claims he is the Messiah of Change while simultaneously lying to the American voters about his radical Leftist friends and his Palestinian Jew-hating friends. Here is a good anti-Obama election video that obviously voters did not take to heart.

(This is only one aspect of the Obama lies, but this is not part of this story.)

Caroline Glick writes a savvy analysis of the Obama team even now exerting pressure on the expected winner of the Israeli February 10, 2009 elections – Benyamin Netanyahu. Glick also reserves some criticism for Netanyahu. Netanyahu’s last time as Prime Minister was not exactly considered a shining light of success. There is some concern that Netanyahu is telling the Israeli voters what they want to hear but may fail to withstand the pressure of an American Presidency.

If indeed the Israeli polls are correct and Netanyahu becomes Prime Minister on a security platform and keep Jerusalem as one city under Israeli sovereignty, will he actively pursue the platform against the wishes of the most powerful man in the world – the President of the United States of America?

JRH 12/12/08

Livni's Obama strategy

Caroline Glick writes that Tzipi Livni is going to use the Barack Hussein Obama strategy in an attempt to delude Israeli voters.

Currently the Israeli polls show that Likud head Benjamin Netanyahu leads Livni’s Kadima.

Livni intends to use the BHO strategy of focusing on an issue voters are concerned about trying to force Likud to answer that issue rather than examining just as important issues.

Let us pray that Netanyahu and Likud are wise enough to keep to the issues that have placed him in the lead in the polls for the sake of a unified Jerusalem.

JRH 11/8/08

Can Likud Lead Before Olmert Gives Jerusalem Away?

As a Conservative viewing gloom and doom at 8:30 PM CT for the Republican Party, I am enheartened to view an emerging Right electorate in the Land of Israel. The treacherous political party toward Judaism and Eretz Israel – Kadima – is beginning to collapse with prominent Israeli politicians moving toward Netanyahu’s Likud party and even some politicians that had left Likud returning to the traditional slanted right political party.

Now this is excellent because Likud represents NOT giving the Holy City of Christians and Jews – Jerusalem – to Mohammedan Arabs who are intent on calling themselves Palestinians. Likud will satisfy Observant and Zionist Jews as well as the Conservative Christians in America who have been labeled as Christian Zionists.

Slanted Left Israelis, EU leaders, Slanted Left American leaders and curiously the Bush Administration and many GOP members of Congress believe dividing Jerusalem and returning Israel to a pre-1967 border will bring peace to the Middle East. It is my stand and many Zionists that this kind of give-away will embolden Islamic terrorists and rogue nations to accomplish their dream of exterminating Jews from their Biblical land in the name of Allah.

The only real electoral question for Israel is can a Likud coalition assume the Israeli government before caretaker Prime Minister succeeds in giving away the heart of Israel?

JRH 11/4/08

Hallelujah! Jerusalem May yet Remain ONE

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is still on the Eternal Throne. Israel’s Shas Party has refused to join Tzipi Livni (protégé of corrupt out going Prime Minister Ehud Olmert) in forming a Kadima led government.

What was the reason? Shas wanted a united Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty while Olmert and Livni are under the delusion that dividing Jerusalem will bring peace to Israel. Jerusalem is the heritage of Judaism not Mohammedanism. Mohammedan conquerors consolidated their control of Jerusalem in the mid-600’s A.D. and purposefully built two Mosques on the Temple Mount (by the way both of which were built AFTER Mohammed’s death). Jerusalem has been a political ploy only significant to Mohammedans when their attention benefits Mohammedanism.

Livni has given up on finding another political partner and has notified Israel’s President Peres she cannot form a government and thus elections will be required.

According to Israeli polls, Binyamin Netanyahu of Likud will handily be the majority Party after the next Israeli election.

Due to the Parliamentary system in Israel Ehud Olmert is still actually the Prime Minister until elections can sort out a Party coalition probably under Likud’s leadership rather Olmert/Livni’s Kadima leadership. Christian Zionists (and I do mean that endearingly) and religious Jews can only pray that the Knesset can prevent the deluded Olmert (under the direction of the Bush Administration) from splitting Jerusalem between Israel and Israel’s mortal enemy – Arabs that call themselves Palestinians (Mohammedans).

JRH 10/27/08

Caretaker Prime Minister Sells Out Israel

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert resigned in September as the result of increasing evidence of corruption. His Kadima Party successor barely won its primary to replacement. Tzipi Livni was the hand picked choice of Olmert however she only won the Kadima Party position by a slim 1%.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been openly negotiating with the Islamic terrorists that are the love children of Western Leftists and deluded Western politicians that believe the creation of a sovereign Arab-Palestinian State will solve over a half a century of Islamic nations animus toward the existence of Israel. Those negotiations include the rogue terrorist State Syria over the Golan Heights.

I rejoiced when I read that Olmert had resigned; however it has been slow to sink in that a Parliamentarian resignation is not the same as a resignation in America’s federal republic. Indeed Olmert remains as Prime Minister until Livni gets all her ducks in a row to form a majority Party coalition from the Knesset. If Livni fails to form a coalition then national elections will be held; however that could be as late as January 2010.

So check it out: Ehud Olmert has resigned as Prime Minister has the potential to remain the Prime Minister through 2010! This is significant because Olmert is committed to selling out Judaism by giving away the eastern half of Jerusalem (the city of David) where the Temple Mount is located, the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) plus some of Israel’s internationally recognized land under the delusion that the giving up of land will bring peace and security to the Land of Israel.

The tragedy is that if elections were held in Israel today Kadima is predicted to lose its majority Party status to Likud headed by Benjamin Netanyahu. The Labor Party is currently the number two Party and coalition member with Kadima. Labor is headed by Ehud Barak who has toyed with the idea of hooking up with Likud. Many expect Barak to backtrack on that idea for it would force elections which probably would demote Labor to number three leaving Likud and Kadima as number one and number two respectively. In Parliamentary talk that means Barak could be a big loser if he leaves the Kadima coalition.

Here is the thing: Unless a huge political monkey wrench is thrown into Olmert’s political designs to sell out his heritage, he will create an Israel that is in a position of security weakness of the 1949 borders when Arab Muslim nations felt comfortable doing an invasion or two.

This is where I turn you to the insights of Caroline Glick.

In a Rosh Hashanah interview with Yediot Ahronot, Olmert admitted for the first time that he is negotiating deals with Syria and the Fatah-led faction of the Palestinian Authority committing Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights, from dozens of neighborhoods in Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, as well as all or nearly all of Judea and Samaria.

That should be enough to get your attention on how a caretaker Prime Minister can sell out his nation. SO READ MORE!

JRH 10/3/08

Netanyahu Could Resist the ... Dismantling of Israel

Netanyahu Could Resist the Bush/Olmert/Kadima Dismantling of Israel

Binyamin Netanyahu has the correct vision for a viable State of Israel. Netanyahu is the current leader of the Likud Party. Likud is in opposition to ex-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s Party founded by now incapacitated Ariel Sharon – Kadima. Thank God Almighty that Olmert has been forced out of Office due to links of criminal activity.

Olmert has made it his mission to pander to the Bush Administration to give away all that is holy to Judaism (and ergo Christianity) to a group of Arabs that usurped the name Palestinian who wish to form a hostile Arab/Islamic sovereign State next door to Israel.

Just before leaving Office Olmert has been quoted as saying:

"The notion of a Greater Israel no longer exists, and anyone who still believes in it is deluding himself... I've come to realize that we have to share this land with the people who dwell here, if we don’t want to be a binational state."(Israel National News)

The “Greater Israel” includes land won in the heat of battle from invading Muslim armies in 1967. Israel’s victory gave military control of one time Arab occupied East Jerusalem in which the Temple Mount is located. Israel had access to holy burial sites of the Jewish Patriarchs and people of Biblical importance (from a Christian and Jewish perspective).

The greatest error of 1967 was allowing the Mohammedan Waqf near absolute control of the Temple Mount because to the two Mosques conquering Muslims built there. The very Arab nations who refused to matriculate their fellow Arabs into their own population in order to create a wedge to continuously be able to have an excuse to end Israel’s existence.

There have been indications that the new Kadima Party leader Prime Minister Tzipi Livni is a puppet to continue the dismantling of Israel.

Netanyahu wants elections sooner than later to know the will of the people on giving up Jewish land to Muslim supremacist Arabs who have no right to a sovereign State that was originally designed to part of Jordan (Transjordan in 1947).

Let us pray Netanyahu will succeed in moving Israel into their Parliamentary style elections and that Livni’s Kadima Party will be set aside by a Likud ruling coalition with Netanyahu as Prime Minister.

JRH 9/30/08

Netanyahu Going Into Action to Topple Olmert

Israeli politics may spell the end of the inept Prime Minister Olmert and his Kadima Party. There is the appearance that right wing Likud will pick up 30 to 35 Parliamentary seats which should be more than enough to form a coalition that will make Kadima the minority. To the majority go the spoils of election victory meaning Netanyahu could become the new Prime Minister.

JRH
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Netanyahu Going Into Action to Topple Olmert

by Gil RonenPublished: 04/18/07, 9:34 PM
IsraelNationalNews.com

(IsraelNN.com) Likud Chairman and head of the Opposition Binyamin Netanyahu has decided to abandon his wait-and-see strategy and to launch a public campaign for toppling Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government. In a rally held Tuesday at the Likud headquarters building 'Metzudat Ze'ev' in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu reportedly told his supporters "this government has to go home and we need to start acting to make this happen."

He told them to begin holding weekly protest vigils every Friday in busy intersections throughout Israel as well as street demonstrations. "The slogan is simple," he said: "'You've Failed – Go Home'."

According to NRG, the meeting was attended by dozens of Likud branch chairmen and other central activists from all parts of Israel. Netanyahu informed them of a working plan for country-wide protest vigils with the intention of creating an atmosphere conducive to bringing down the government. Netanyahu assured the activists that he would be joining the protests on a regular basis.

Netanyahu's move appears to be timed with precision, as the date of release of the interim report by the Winograd Commission approaches. The Winograd Commission was appointed to investigate failures in the conduct of the Second Lebanon War last summer and is expected to have harsh criticism for the government and its heads. Prime Minister Olmert has received record-setting low marks of support in the polls, one of which recently gave him an amazingly low 3% support level – less than the margin of error.

The polls also predict the Likud will receive 30 to 35 Knesset seats – compared to its present representation of 12 MKs. The polls have consistently predicted an election outcome that would make it possible for Netanyahu to handily form a coalition based on a partnership with the National Union/NRP and Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu, which are expected to garner about 20 seats between them, and a haredi religious party like Shas, which is expected to receive about 10 seats. In addition, a recent poll gave Arkadi Gaydamak 9 seats, assuming he will indeed form a political party as he has said he would.

In interviews he gave the press at the start of the Passover holiday, Netanyahu said he felt ripe for the position of Prime Minister and had learned his lessons from his previous term at the government's helm. He also predicted Olmert's government would fall prematurely due to public pressure.

Olmert's government has thus far proven stable, despite its decline in popularity. There is some apprehension among Olmert's opponents who maintain that a deal between Olmert and the media may be in the works, in which the media would prop him up in exchange for his adoption of a far left agenda.

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