Since losing his majority in the October 27 vote, Netanyahu and his allies have been pressing a serious accusation: the election was “stolen” by Arab parties through bribery, foreign funding and fraud. They are demanding investigations, arrests and, in the most extreme version, even canceling the vote and going to another round of elections.
They have yet to present any evidence, but the political goal is clear: to cast a veil of illegitimacy on the Joint List and Raam, the two Arab parties that saw record turnout and are likely to be a crucial part of any effort to oust Israel’s longest-serving leader.
Netanyahu did not lose the election outright, nor did he win it. The same is true for Eisenkot. Both fell short of the required 61-seat majority in the 120-seat parliament needed for a clear victory. Israel now faces weeks – perhaps months – of political uncertainty.
So you’re telling me one of the most capable surveillance states in the world couldn’t prevent it’s most thoroughly surveilled part of the population from somehow “stealing” the election?
Yeah seems plausible
The bad thing about Trump being successful after claiming the US elections were stolen is that he provided a template for other super-shitty world leaders to follow.
The good thing, though, is that Trump has also kind of ruined the concept. Trump is such an obvious clown that when he did it, the rest of the world mercilessly mocked America, making the same stuff less likely to succeed in other countries.
Exactly. He shown the world that you can basically tell the stupidest lies ever every fucking days and you won’t get any consequence as long as medias are controlled by billionaires. “Children go to school and gets transitionned”, “All Muslim are jihadist”, “The left will create Stalin’s style communism”, etc.
France media are using the same playbook: “Student protests? Obviously the Muslim brothers”.
They have caught a handful of voter issues (like 3 or 4 individuals voting more than once.) They were all republicans voting for Republicans. Our country has very nearly 350 million people. Est. ~178million voters. [Statisa.com] if 3 or 4 people do it out of 178 million, we are amazingly well behaved as an electoral body. Fuck Trump, and fuck all fascists who would have us believe it is raining while they piss on us.
The only real demonstrable voter fraud issue that has been widely recognized came from the president himself trying to “find votes” in Georgia and of course, topped that sundae with J6.
More relevant than ever: there are 4 lights.
There was also demonstrable elections fraud at least once: NC-9 back in 2018.
Lol complaining about these specific things is pretty rich, even if it did happen. Is the complaint really about IP theft?
Fair elections are dead. If you lose, just yell it was rigged until everyone believes you.
Israel complaining about foreign funding in elections is pretty hilarious. That’s like 80% of their foreign policy strategy.
they spend too much time and effort on elections on the other side of the planet… forgot about their own.
This is the world now. It’s the 2nd grade.
"Losing sucks. I can’t possibly lose. I can’t conceive of a world in which I’ve lost. I can’t work in a world where I’ve lost.
"I will contrive the world to my own advantage. I will kill, lie, destroy, steal, pillage, and salt the earth. I will make my loss as unbearable to everyone around me as I can until I’m handed a win.
“And then, when I’ve got what I want, I’ll make everyone regret having conceived of going against me. Others’ suffering secures my power.”
This isn’t a society. It’s an abusive relationship with all the hallmarks of a hostage situation.
"I will contrive the world to my own advantage. I will kill, lie, destroy, steal, pillage, and salt the earth. I will make my loss as unbearable to everyone around me as I can until I’m handed a win.
Yeesh where the hell did you go to 2nd grade?
San Francisco.
the right should not have rights.
if they want slavery, I don’t see an ethical problem giving it to them
I mean can you blame them? There is like an 80 percent chance no one will hold them accountable for their bullshit. They pretty much have nothing to lose and every thing to gain. The current US president spawned an insurrection and the country voted him back in…
Democracy was conceived of in response to all of civilization being run by tyrants just as you describe. This behavior is not at all new.
All these dipshits don’t just have their office on the line.
Like Trump and Putin, Bibi isn’t just running for office but running from prison.
They see what happened to Duterte, Jair Bolsanaro, etc.
maybe the fact these guys can even plausibly cheat is a deeper indictment of the entire system?
It’s a trade floor, and we’re the dollar bill to the billionaire.
The evidence:
… Shin Bet security service …
I’m sorry, but “Shin Bet” is acronym for “shirut bitachon” which is Hebrew for “security service”, making this a RAS syndrome.
It should be a felony for a public official to cry that an election was stolen.
They can push in the courts all they want but they shouldn’t be allowed to stir up the people while the election is being processed. It makes everyone less safe and their free speech rights should be removed during this time.
Agree! It will never ever make sense to me that it can easily be proven in some cases that some rich asshole is knowingly lying in a harmful way and yet there’s never any attempt at consequences for it. Meanwhile us normal people go to jail for practically nothing sometimes. People getting executed in the streets for suspected shoplifting, but Nazi cunts spread lies that kill people and it’s fine.
Of course he does. Did anyone expect otherwise?
What I wonder is do despots like Trump and Netanyahu believe their bullshit or do they know it’s bullshit?
Netanyahu, probably not. But I don’t think Trump is capable of understanding the difference between lies and truth anymore, what with all the dementia. Not that he was too worried about it when he was ‘functional’.
We know that Trump’s cabinet are a bunch of spineless yes-men who won’t give him bad news. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the same for Bibi.
The gif that keeps on gif’ing…
A more perfect and more schadenfreude gif for the situation does not exist.
Seems to be the new normal for right wingers to call every lost election stolen.
Its not even lost elections.
Some of them cry about elections they won, because they didnt win hard enough.
Nothing about any of this is new, they’re all running the playbook from 80 years ago, and it was old then
These constant normalizing statements are so tiring. Yeah, stuff like this has happend before. It becoming the normal state of things is new and has not been here 80 years go.
Just because they become angrier and louder and more stupid about it doesn’t mean they’re not still playing the same game.
No, but it means they attract more players.
Seems to be the new normal for right wingers to call every lost election stolen.
*whingers
Heads I win, tails you cheated.
That is exactly the reasoning that just got the Alaska lawsuit tossed.
I sense a theme appearing this week.
