International elections

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Pretty dark stuff, that's for sure.

It seems friggin’ Bibi might form a coalition with Bennett. Bennett makes Bibi seem like a radical leftist

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Things get curioser and curioser in the Israeli elections

A few things first

1. The Israeli voting system uses proportional representation: one person one vote. This leads to minor parties getting dispoprtionate power beyond which their numbers maynot otherwise warrant

2. No one party has had an outright majority over many years

3. When goverment forms it is invariably a coalition of the right wing with various jewish religious parties who are in the main extemely right wing and want to control civil affairs, there are alo at times secular right wing parties

4. The left are small and fragmented

5. United List are a collective so called Arab Party who area coalition of Islamic Conservatives, left wing socialist and naionalist parties including anti - zionist groups. The United list is no longer united.

6. There are different but very small secular parties which are on the left

Now what makes things interesting is this:

"...An Arab Islamist party may hold the key to the political survival of right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the latest and perhaps strangest twist in Israel’s ongoing odyssey to break a two-year political logjam.

Netanyahu is likely to be unable to form a coalition without the participation of the conservative Islamist Ra’am party, which appears set to gain four seats in the next Knesset. It would be only one part of a dog’s breakfast coalition that would also need to marry the Islamists with far-right Jewish extremists and ultra-Orthodox special interests..."


https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-islam ... overnment/

[David]

Right-wing extremists on either side of these divides like to pretend that they're each other's sworn enemies (and that only they can save the common citizen from the other), but at the end of the day they're really natural allies with a common enemy, i.e. humanity.

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Right-wing extremists on either side of these divides like to pretend that they're each other's sworn enemies (and that only they can save the common citizen from the other), but at the end of the day they're really natural allies with a common enemy, i.e. humanity.

I think I’ve noted before that despite centuries old enmities between the three monotheistic religions they put this behind them and join in unison one time of year in Jerusalem.

This of course just precedes the annual LGBQT parade

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The lgbtqia+ parade in Jerusalem would be a sight to behold.

[David]

Well, we don’t need to imagine!

https://youtu.be/7n59W7w1ooU

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The lgbtqia+ parade in Jerusalem would be a sight to behold.

Unfortunately, the product of the three monotheistic religions coming together at that one time of year is this:

"..16-year-old Stabbed in Jerusalem Pride Parade Succumbs to Wounds
Shira Banki was critically wounded in an attack by an ultra-Orthodox man on Thursday; Netanyahu: She died for bravely supporting everyone's right to live in dignity...".

https://www.haaretz.com/teen-stabbed-in ... -1.5382156

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Well, we don’t need to imagine!

https://youtu.be/7n59W7w1ooU

I started watching that, but got distracted as this was in the recommended vids on the same page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHaMBCaSEPE

[David]

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How's that saying go, The enemy of my enemy is my friend?

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https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/2 ... ght-battle

Macron’s victory was by a greater margin than predicted by any poll and is the first time in 20 years that a French president has been re-elected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghhpNBw4l1Y

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yeah, but he's got a lot of work to do. Something around 28% of eligible voters didn't vote. That Le Pen still got 42% of those who did vote is scary.

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This could get interesting.

The Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein has won the largest number of seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly for the first time.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-08/ ... /101047436

I remember the "troubles" in Ireland back in the day but don't have any real understanding of the detail or context other than the IRA blowing lots of people and stuff up. I think a united one Ireland would be a good thing and piss the poms off and out of there, but it's what the people there want that counts.

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Not an election as such, but BoJo is gone.

You look at the guy, he's a self caricature. All he was missing was the clown shoes and red nose.

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Not an election as such, but BoJo is gone.

You look at the guy, he's a self caricature. All he was missing was the clown shoes and red nose.

Such an entitled narcissist BJ: blamed everyone else.