And now it's official: Bennett's "New Right" does not make it into Knesset
So he'd better take accountability if he's smart. Here's the official report on ballot counts:
The New Right will remain out of the 21st Knesset, after no major problems were found in dozens of ballot boxes reviewed a second time at the request of New Right leader Naftali Bennett.Bennett's admitted defeat:
Hundreds of New Right volunteers spent days poring through ballot protocols to try to find flaws that would help the party get into the Knesset. New Right was only about 1,400 votes below the 3.25% electoral threshold.
Education Minister Naftali Bennett conceded that he had lost his Knesset seat and that the New Right party had failed to clear the electoral threshold.He'd do even better to apologize for wasting the votes of thousands of people who'll now consider him toxic, with good reason. One of my relatives may have spotted a video somewhere in which Bennett was recorded at a house conference for election promos, and almost all the time, he seemed to just talk about Netanyahu, and hardly anyone else. Well if Bennett's going to conduct an obsession, it's no wonder he'd conk out in the end, and now, he'll not only have to accept defeat, he'll exit politics altogether if he's smart, and never come near the political sphere ever again, period. Indeed, it looks like his partnership with Ayelet Shaked is also coming to a close:
"I did the best I could for my beloved people," Bennett wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday evening after the Central Elections Committee found that the New Right had gained less than 50 votes in the latest recount and remained over 1,400 votes shy of the electoral threshold.
"After six years of kosher service, 100 campaign days and another week of struggle for every voice, I can say: I did the best I could for the people of Israel, my beloved nation," Bennett said.
"This time it was not enough.
"I have no complaints to anyone. I and I alone are responsible for the result.
New Right leaders Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett will reportedly part ways following a surprisingly poor election showing last week that saw the party fall just short of the votes needed to get into the Knesset."Popular" is disputable at this point. They weren't even properly organized for a separate campaign, and if they hadn't thrown the United Right party under the bus, chances are together, they would've gained another seat or two in the Knesset. Instead, they slapped many decent people in the face, and demonstrated they were more interested in grabbing votes away from Likud than getting more newcomers to vote for them. Which is super-cheap. What Bennett did makes me so furious. So if he kindly departs from politics, I think that'll make everyone feel much better.
Sources close to the two lawmakers told Channel 13 news on Sunday that the pair, who have not been seen together since the final election results were released on Thursday, would soon dissolve their political alliance.
According to some reports, Shaked could join the ruling Likud party.
The New Right had one of the most disappointing performances of the 2019 election. The two popular pro-settler ministers split from their religious-nationalist Jewish Home party and sought greater power by appealing to new secular voters, but the maneuver backfired.
Labels: Israel, Knesset, Moonbattery
Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz
grew up Orthodox but later became secular.
He said this about Orthodox Judaism,
many years after he quit it:
“I cannot leave my progeny any legacy
comparable to the Orthodox commitment to,
and intimate knowledge of, Jewish tradition
and practice that my predecessors left me.
Though I have not abandoned my Jewishness
– far from it – I have also not carried on
the tradition of daily religious observance
and total immersion in the sources of the tradition.
Sometimes I regret not having done so.”
SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
(introduction chapter, page 12) published in 1991
by Little Brown & Co ISBN: 9780316181372 ISBN: 0316181374
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Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:
“It is true that the American legal system
derives much of its content from the Old Testament
[also known as the Jewish Bible or Tanach]…
When we were growing up, my friends and I would
take great pride in discovering the Jewish sources
of American laws, such as: the privilege against
self-incrimination, the requirement of two witnesses
for certain types of crime, and the very idea that
punishment must be proportionate to the crime committed.”
SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
(chapter 10, page 318) published in year 1991
by Little Brown & Co ISBN: 9780316181372 ISBN: 0316181374
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Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:
“My father was once rudely ordered to remove his cap
by a federal judge, when he came to court to watch me argue.
The judge quickly apologized when he learned
it was my father he was yelling at.
But the fact that he yelled at all shows how
intolerant and ignorant a judge can be
of a minority religious practice,
even in a city as Jewish as New York.”
SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
(chapter 10, page 328) published in year 1991 by
Little Brown & Co ISBN: 9780316181372 ISBN: 0316181374
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and the Middle East, then do not waste
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Israel-bashing mainstream-news-media.
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www.algemeiner.com
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www.DanielPipes.org
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