All those communities suffering the most from the disproportionate distribution of State money (which goes to the settlements, or Bibi's household)...yet STILL voted strongly for the Likud, deserve exactly what they will get.

I don't know who I feel sorry for more the Palestinians or the Israelis

Netanyahu thinks he won a great victory, and he did....for the growing tsunami of the boycott and divestiture movement that is increasing tremendously not only in Europe but in America as well, for the possibility of a bi-national State, for the acceleration of Israel's pariah status all around the world, for the increasing isolation of Israel among millions more Americans, for the estrangement of Israel's Arab citizens due to his racist remarks, and for the chance for more war. You Israelis who lambast Obama cannot see the forest thru the trees. You need to look at what every single major newspaper all across America is now saying about your country. Obama did not lose, the Israeli people and the security and safety and future of Israel did when you re-elected Netanyahu. If you think that America is the evangelicals and Fox News, and the Republicans who care only about you because of campaign donations they receive from AIPAC you will soon learn how very wrong you are. Ben Gurion must be weeping from Heaven seeing the destruction that Netanyahu has wrought. Any person who cares about Israel must be weeping along with Israel's founders. The light unto nations has gone dark.

Congrats Bibi. May God be with you and with Israel. Amen.

your comment is flawed besisde israel will stand nothing people like you obama the european union anti semite can do the land of israel belongs to the jews tell obama to give back the california, texas back to mexico the remaining land to the american indians you massacared the likes of you and obama want another arab state in the heart israel dream on it wont happen the arabs have 22 states beside jordan eighty percents palestinians let them go there.

What the same newspapers that predicted a Herzog win. Please read Psalm 122 and know who really protects Israel. Israel has survived Arab wars and terrorism for years and will survive Obamas hatred as well. Learn this" greater is he that is in me than who is in the world". Long live King Bibi long live Israel and the Jewish people everywhere.

What a smile the Likud win brings to my fact this morning when I think about how hard ynet tried to defeat Netanyahu.

I take it that you do not know Israel. There is nothing about which to feel sorry. We have our ups and downs, and we make our mistakes. We are not even close to perfect. All true. But feeling sorry? For what? For democracy? For proportional representation and the many (at times squabbling) voices heard loud and clear in Israeli politics, and in our parliament?

You are seriously out of touch with Israel. The people of Israel chose Likud, and other Nationalist parties over the other side. But the other side is also good and necessary. Often the same goals but different ideas about attaining them. No one is perfect here, but it is the people who voted Likud. If you knew Israeli, Jewish and our Torah heritage you would know that Israel will be isolated no matter what her internal politics, or external relations. Until you understand that, you will be condemned to interpret the exceedingly narrow world of conventional thought and media misrepresentation. Binyamin Netanyahu is a social liberal, a free-market economist, and a hawk on the defense of Israel. It matters little what you think if you do not understand Bibi's 3-dimensional chess game and the 4-thousand year history of the the people called Israel.

netanyahu ousted from his government those who proved disloyal. he then called elections in a very hostile international environment. not only did netanyahu's likud won decisively, but his natural partners have won sufficient number of seats to form a stable coalition government who will support him.

your threats against the jewish state are meaningless. obama will go down in history as a demagogue and a manipulator who stood by while hundreds of thousands, many of them minorities, are being slaughtered by his good friends the iranians and by the islamic state who arose in response to the slaughter of sunnis.

You carried out a hard fought and spirited election. Now I urge you to act as a people echad and roar to the world. There's no place like Eretz Israel...politics to religion......just no place like Israel :)

It seems you have forgotten what values and principles are. I am saddend to read your reply. The United States I grew up in stood for what they beieved in and newspapers and communist propoganda be damned. I guess the U.S. under Obama is no longer that nation that is true to it values of Democracy and tolerance. Under Obama is to alienate your friends and embrace your enemies. That will lead to the U.S 's isolation and vunerability. I pray I am wrong. But when I read your posts it seems that is where the U.S. is headed and its most unfortunate.

says that the election was in God's hands and shows exactly the step that Israel needs to take for the future.

We will manage, honestly. The less you intervene in our business the better off we are. Look around you, check out your own country - grooming gangs? Muslims tell you how to live your lives? People jailed for wearing crosses ?Jailed for playing a 70s song? Jailed For quoting Churchill? Elderly people drinking flower pots water because your "universal healthcare" has gone bankrupt? I do not feel a little bit sorry for you - you get what you deserve.

The title of your article is a blatant lie: "Likud wins big across Israel, while Zionist Union makes massive gains on Gaza border". The so-called 'Zionist Union' made "massive gains" on kibbutzim on the Gaza border. Big surprise! So, a few Labour kibbutzim, with a few hundred members each, mainly voted for Herzog & Livni, and for Meretz, while All the rest of the region voted Likud. Are you ever going to be able to write the truth?