Inside Israel Today: 12 Elections too Many?

you're listening to inside Israel today with your Hoffmann on the land of Israel Network hello and welcome to inside Israel today broadcasting from Jerusalem only two weeks before our exciting election perhaps our second election of three perhaps our second election of many more perhaps we will just go on forever having election after election after election in which case I will have plenty to do and the people of this country will go insane but ladies and gentlemen as we go into these final two weeks when the politicians are actually going to start spending their money that they've been saving the entire summer when they realize that Israelis were on vacation or too wrapped up with their children and wouldn't really be able to listen to them and then after this week where they were just getting their kids used to school as we get into this part of the election campaign that finally matters with two weeks left I want to present you with an interesting scenario that I've been thinking about for a while which is that perhaps the election that we have here is not just connected to the election in America we've mentioned that before where the this election being a microcosm of the American election and where the politicians running against Netanyahu are using tactics that could be used by the Democratic candidate against Donald Trump in the American election because of the similarities that there are between Netanyahu Trump maybe actually this election will lead to an election that was similar actually to what we just had in Britain now to get to that understanding I have to go through a long process here and I hope that I'll keep your attention perhaps this election is not the second as we've been talking about all along perhaps it is the sixth election out of 12 right now take out a pen and paper if you still use those or take out a computer or an iPad and count with me to 12 let's see if I can do this okay the first election that we had was actually October 31st of 2018 less than a year away the people of Israel went to the polls and they had a very impressive turnout and in the elections that they had for mayors and City Council people all over the country that election resulted in motion Lyon being elected mayor of Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh elected a woman non ultra-orthodox mayor which made news the mayor of Haifa as a woman and the mayor of Tel Aviv stayed on again he's been mayor since if I think before I was born maybe but uh that election was already Israelis getting into politics and getting involved and and going out to vote shortly thereafter on December 24th is when it in yow initiated election number two the election for the Knesset and the results of that election were relatively inconclusive 35 seats for the could 35 seats for blue and white and Netanyahu though did have 65 seats on the right which is very much a victory if the blocks are what decides but actually that's not what decides what decides is if you could form a government which leads us to election number three which was an election of one man president Reuven Rivlin who had to decide who would form a government and he decided on Netanyahu and even if it is an election with one man it is an election a very very important election that leads us to election number four which was the election of the Knesset members Netanyahu had to get the support of 61 to form a government he got instead if he got 60 that is not enough to form a government the Knesset voted no to Netanyahu then you had election number five which was the election to disperse the Knesset to go to another election there you had 120 Knesset members voting there and a majority of them decided to go to the election okay and that led to the election that we have going on right now which is election number six the election for the current Knesset September 17th this election it's important that you vote but you're not gonna really decide who the next government is gonna be because we have a very important election coming up election number seven in which the Knesset speaker sorry in which the president will get to the Knesset speaker later in which the president Reuven Rivlin again is going to decide who's going to form a government and there he's going to look at who's the largest party right now there are some polls that say it'll be blue and white there's some polls that say it'll be Lee could okay that's not gonna decide who he's gonna pick he could look at largest bloc and there there's no doubt the right blocki is larger if you include a bigger Lieberman but that's not what will make him decide election 7 will make him decide election 7 is the recommendations because you have the party heads 9 parties are expected to cross the electoral threshold sorry to our listeners from oats mile detour very excited that they're getting close to closer to close of elect of getting into threshold no they won't nine parties and those nine parties will represent the hundred twenty Knesset members right now the way it's looking is the majority of them are going to recommend against to form a government you have the Arab party that the last elections did not recommend anyone to form a government this time they're saying that they're going to recommend against Lieberman recommend the Netanyahu formal government last time this time he says he's going to recommend the party that is in favor of a unity government which is a very nice way of saying he's recommending been against so there the president would have no choice if you have more than 61 Knesset members saying they will not join the government led by Netanyahu which is what's happening and they would join a government led by Ganz Ganz will be given the first opportunity to form a government can he form a government no there are not a majority of Knesset members are willing to sit together with other parties under Bennigan's when it comes to election seven that election is decided by hate by who can sit with Netanyahu and a majority cannot but while there are more than 61 Knesset members who hate Netanyahu there are not 61 Knesset members who love each other enough to build a coalition building a coalition which is election number eight is about love okay love is not the most powerful force in the world hate is the most powerful force in the world especially when it comes to Israeli politics but hate is easy anybody can hate love is complicated especially in politics so that election number eight which is about building a government about love the gas is gonna fail that will lead us to election number nine when Netanyahu gets his chance to form a government can Netanyahu form a government well no there are not 61 members of Knesset to sit under Netanyahu but perhaps with his back against the wall nobody wants to have a third election then maybe he can no he can't there and still won't be 61 members of Knesset because then people gonna remember actually it doesn't initiate an election if he can't form a government it initiates a loophole which is that once the president is asked to be able to form a government then the job is given to the Knesset speaker the Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein will then be given a chance to ask someone to form a government and that is when you could see that Lee could decide to hold a snap election not for not an election of the entire people voting but a Boris Johnson style election like you had in Britain when Boris Johnson was elected leader of the Conservative Party he automatically barring a rubber-stamp vote from the Parliament that he then is suspended they let him be the Prime Minister the members of the party decided the Prime Minister that is what could happen in election 10 where the people who happen to be members of liquid for 14 months the minimum amount would be eligible to decide the Prime Minister of Israel you're talking about a 80,000 people about all right still following me so that election would be a very exciting election he'll have about 15 people running for leader of Lee could have been only four litres of Lee could going back to the 1930s as opposed to the fourteen people have been leader of the Labour Party over the last 15 years it's them exaggerating only a little bit there so that'll be the most exciting election in Israel's history I believe and then the person who would then form the government he would that vote that there would be in the in the Knesset approving his coalition would then be election number 11 all right now I said that there were 12 and so I have to correct something if I count an election that is for leader of Li could where the members of a party vote well then I have to accept that in Israeli democracy there are not too many parties that still hold votes for their leader and so I really actually have to also count an election that I did not count before to go back if I write this up for The Jerusalem Post and put it in the right order which was the election for leader of the Labour Party where the Labour Party decided to replace la viga by and have a new leader and Amir Peretz was chosen over Stav Shaffir I need six muli so there have actually been 12 elections or will be twelve elections of which we are currently on election number producer have you done the math this would be seven not six now if this all really happens and someone who is not Netanyahu but is in lis could forms a government that person ladies and gentlemen can form the most stable government we have had in a very long time because look at the numbers the people of Israel are overwhelmingly in favor of aliquots ideology but the people there are plenty of people who are in favor of liquid ideology who don't like Netanyahu for whatever reason because he's been in power for too long because he's seen as serving himself at the expense of the people too much because of his criminal investigations because of his wife and his son there's plenty that they people don't like about him according to the polls but once he is out of the way parties that exist in politicians who are not only could because of hatred of Netanyahu or his hatred of them are going to be able to come back a yellow chick head will be in Li could theirs no reason for the Yisrael Beiteinu party to exist anymore that party was formed because Lieberman couldn't get along with Netanyahu anymore Neftali Bennett worked for Netanyahu couldn't get along with him anymore Netanyahu's hatred of a yellow chick Heather was revealed in a tape last night it was broadcast on the news shows that there was no way she could have even dreamed of joining Li could when when he was still there Moshe Cosmo just rejoined Li could the people of Israel are over there and whoever is that person who would win that election number 11 for leader of Likud would be able to be Prime Minister I think for four years because the people of Israel except for me are very sick of Elections and after having 12 since October 31st of 2018 less than a year ago I think are going to want to just make do with what we have and I'll just end by saying that we have an election coming up for president because the term of Ruben ripp Reuven Rivlin as president is going to be finishing up in another year and a half but other than that I think the people of Israel are going to be so sick of having elections that they'll just cancel elections for student councils and for heads of the homeowners associations in their building isn't just saved whoever wants it just take it no more I've had enough stay with us after the break we'll have more politics inside Israel today I call for a vote I'm not voting for her you should know who are you gonna vote for in the upcoming election hi this is Josh hastin host of Israel uncensored on the Land of Israel Network full election news and analysis that you're not going to get anywhere else that's the Land of Israel Network at the land of israel comm keep it locked in if you vote for me I love your wildest dreams will come true [Music] and we're back here on inside Israel today on the Land of Israel Network in the Land of Israel calm where I hope you had your scorecard ladies and gentlemen for the first part of our show where I explained why we might end up having 12 elections of which we're currently on election number 7 you might have to listen to it one more time to make sure you get it and I might also so having said that here we are in the last two weeks where the election really really is supposed to be getting into high gear and we've seen how the election at this point we're seeing no political debates like they have in the United States I wish that we had political debates I wish Netanyahu would say I have nothing to hide I have nothing to fear and let's debate Bennigan's let's debate Amir Peretz let's debate Avigdor Lieberman let's debate I manoda let's debate a electric head and have the leaders in a room together fighting it out on issues have the first questions be about the economy the second questions be about security be about diplomacy make people really outline their plans I have been invited to very few events where parties actually lay out a platform with notable exceptions the Labour Party invited me to a very extensive briefing on their socio-economic platform the Democratic Union Party invited me to a very extensive outlining of their environmental platform if I wanted to listen to climate change stuff for 20 minutes on that and in another half-hour on other environmental issues I would have gone I didn't the Yamina party has managed to put together some kind of list of things that they agree on um the four parties the liquid has no platform at on anything they realize no one is going to read it blue and white actually you can read their platform online but everybody says they don't stand for anything it's there on their website it doesn't really mean much and it doesn't really hold them accountable to anything but they did put out a platform to their credit so there are issues in this election but people don't seem to be taking them into account when they vote it has been personal it's been about yes Netanyahu no Netanyahu it's been about the mistakes they've been against as I'm making throughout the campaign that we have been talking about non-stop here on inside Israel today and over the last few days there has been an opponent that politicians can unite against which we've seen before which is the media that's us on election night Netanyahu declared victory over the media and over the last few days that is where he has devoted attention just like in his election speech he did not mention been against who was his actual opponent in the election now also while he has at least acknowledged been against his existence in his campaign ads making fun of him a little bit Netanyahu still has devoted the major focus to the attack on the media and as I pointed out in an analysis on the Jerusalem Post it makes sense to do that the very extensive poll taken every year called the democracy index by the Israel democracy Institute finds that the media is one of the institution's least trusted in Israel today and that method of riling of the masses against the media assembly Netanyahu has done successfully time and time again here in Israel it has been repeated by Donald Trump in the United States and by other right-wing politicians around the world but Netanyahu is very much the founder of that strategy and has found a way to make it very affect so having said that though listeners of this show who have the ability to vote in this election with all due respect to the people in the United States and other listeners around the world who I appreciate is that really what you're voting on is your hatred of me and other media professionals that much that would make you go to the poll and say I'm going to stick it to the media I'm going to put the ballot that says and that's in the i/o on it in that little envelope over there is that would you really care about when you go to vote do you not care about security and education and health care and Social Affairs and the way Israel looks around the world I mean all of those issues can rightly make you vote for any party I'm not endorsing any party over here if issues like security and economy and diplomacy and and all those things if they make you vote for any one of the 31 I believe parties that there are remaining in this election after the who dropped out then great but if that is if all those things aren't important to you you really really think that going against the media is the most important thing to do on Election Day there's a beach somewhere go there relax turn off your radio turn off your TV turn off your internet don't bring a print newspaper fine bring a Perth newspaper we have to do everything to encourage people reading print newspapers but that's not what people need to be voting on that's all I'm gonna say and one last thing the decision that was made over the last week by Moshe Feiglin to merged together with Lee could I got admit it took me by surprise at first because there are no listeners who are more active responders to the show and there are no readers of The Jerusalem Post and followers on Twitter who are more proud of their party than the people who support zut you know they're small and mighty and very vocal if they have an election for Prime Minister based on only people who take the time to write talkbacks on the internet and write letters to the editor of print newspapers and write emails to listeners to shows on the Land of Israel Network 8 I think that Moshe Feiglin would become the Prime Minister because those who people more power to them they're the they're in an active Bunch now what are you gonna do I understand that that falen got promised a cabinet ministry by someone who is not really kept such promises in the past Netanyahu I understand that their commitments received about medical cannabis some of which were already implemented in the past and some still not and and you want to levy eight suffering that's beautiful but are you really gonna go vote really good now is that what you're gonna do after debating against Likud supporters on social media and on talkbacks on the internet for so long are you really gonna swallow your pride and vote for the same party as your person as your neighbor across the street who you debated every time he took out his garbage I just don't really see that happening and I also don't sees a hoot people going to that Beach on Election Day they're not the kind of people who would do that so I want to encourage the substantial percentage of listeners to incite Israel today who vote for is a hoot to go on Election Day to the polling station along with the 31 ballots there will be a nother stack there the stack will not say a hoot because by law after the agreement was reached on Sunday 6 million ballots that said on ads ahout then we're already ready for the September 17th election were destroyed but there will be at every polling station in the country blank pieces of paper if you have that courage and that pride in your party as you claim will be running in every election forever just not this one according to the agreement reached with Netanyahu you bring a nice pen into that polling station it's completely legal and you can or pencil or crayon or marker or maybe even a piece of printed out paper and tape that you can then tape the word is it if you don't want to use print writing put that on that white ballot and put that in that envelope and I would like the central Elections Committee to say you know what those blank ballots which they're required to count thousands of them said on it zut Wow they really care they really kept their ideology no part of the agreement says that they're not allowed to write in things on ballots it just says that they're not allowed to run wouldn't it be amazing if there are a hundred forty thousand of you people out there and then even though you sign the deal that you won't run you're still making it to the Knesset and when they negotiate forming a coalition if Netanyahu gets the opportunity to form a government then Fagan counts under Lee could according to the deal ends ahout gets a separate cabinet ministry that's what would have to happen if you get a hundred forty thousand of you to write on that blank piece of paper okay it's not gonna happen but I challenge you to do it anyway so I've had my fun over here two more weeks before this election stay tuned over here tomorrow excitement Israeli politics on inside Israel today thank you from Jerusalem but the question is why are the Jews there in the first place the Jewish people have been yearning to return to their ancient homeland for a long time they Yishai fleischer show the voice of a new generation of pro-israel activist and there's only two kinds of minorities in the Middle East armed or unarmed 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