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Likud members OK merger with Yisrael Beiteinu
Yuval Karni
Published: 29.10.12, 19:33
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1. As I said before
Israeli 2   (10.29.12)
Michael Eitan should leave likud. He does not belong there. If a new Kach party be formed, they will join Likud Beiteinu along with Shas and the other religious parties. Just one note: The new Kach will never be the original of the great late Rabbi Kahane, z"l.
2. I never voted for the right wing but
Yossef   (10.29.12)
after having voted last time for Tsipi, it's this new aggregation that will get my vote on 22th of January. We'll see where they will lead us.
3. this is probably the only way Bibi can win
zionist forever   (10.29.12)
Labor are on the way up & there is no Kadima to split the left wing vote. Yair Lapid is poaching Likud votes Bibi of course is not as popular as he used to be. Add it all up and the odds are not in his favour and the fact he is leading in the polls right now is irrelevant because these polls cant be relied on because the campaigning hasn't really begun yet and when it does things will change. If Bibi does lose then Shelly Y is going to be looking for coalition partners in Meretz not YB so that would mean if the right wing parties continue to compete against each other then Liberman knows he won't have any influence in policy making. If Likud & YB merge then the new party will get both traditional Likud voters and the traditional YB voters so they should easily have enough seats to have the largest party. Bibi is PM and Liberman gets the cabinet posting of his choice. Form a coalition with the nationalists, religious block ( traditional coalition partners ) & I imagine that Bibi will probably also offer a slot to Mofaz if he wants it just to increase the size & stability of the coalition. Probably he will invite Lapid to join although the more coalition partners Bibi has the less influence Lapid is going to have. Labor & Meretz will be left out in the cold along with their arab friends.
4. #1 Didn't you know that Kach party is illegal?
Gregg ,   Haifa, IL   (10.30.12)
Israel, Europe, US and Canada consider it as a terrorist group and therefore illegal !
5. #1 - There is a Kahane representative in the Knesset
(10.30.12)
Rabbi Dr. Michael Ben-Ari of the "Eretz Shelanu" faction of Ichud Leumi (National Union). He was one of Kahane's original disciples and IS following in his footsteps.
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