What Parties and Policies Will Make Up the Next Israeli
Government?
February 22, 2006
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If the current polls continue to hold true, Kadima (Forward Party) will head the next government, and continue the policies of Ariel Sharon. Kadima would be forced to take other parties into their government in order to have the necessary votes to secure a majority of 61 in the 120 member Knesset.
This poll and all the other polls taken since Ariel Sharon’s stroke, make it plain that the majority of Israelis want the unilateral withdrawal plan he instituted to go forward.
If the current poll happens to be correct, it would mean that Kadima would be forced to take at least two other parties into their government.
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New Poll gives Kadima 42 mandates, Likud 17
JPost.comStaff, THE JERUSALEM POST
February 21, 2006
A new poll conducted by the Geocartographic Institute showed Kadima maintaining a large lead.
Kadima received 42 mandates, the Likud received 17, and Labor 15.
The National Union-NRP joint party received 10 mandates, as did Israel Beiteinu.
Shas received eight mandates, and Meretz five.
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I have been reading all the comments made by Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert since Ariel Sharon’s severe stroke, which has stopped his political career as head of the Kadima (Forward). Since it does appear likely that the Kadima party will receive the most seats in the March 28 election, I have taken his comments, merged them together, analyzed them, and drawn together what he says he will do if elected.
We will separate from the majority of the Palestinian population living in the West Bank.
Israel must separate itself within an agreement that would draw
its permanent borders.
We must remodel the borders of the State of Israel
and this is what I will do after the elections.
To separate ourselves from the majority of Palestinians in the West Bank, we will be forced to evacuate territories currently held by the State of Israel.
We will hold on to the major Jewish Settlements in the West Bank.
We will keep Jerusalem united.
Our control over Israel’s eastern border Jewish Settlements cannot be renounced.
Ma’aleh Adumim, Gush Etzion and Ariel will remain part of the State of Israel.
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has said that Israel would establish its final borders, with or without a negotiated deal, within two years.
I believe that Prime Min ister Olmert
is acutely aware that he cannot negotiate with Hamas.
He will continue Sharon’s plan of unilateral withdrawal and he will establish the borders of Israel with the fence.
He seems to think this can be done within two years.
It is then, and only then, after Israel has something other than God to trust in, namely the fence and its military might, that a mindset of what the Scripture defines as “peace and safety,” will be developed among the general populace of Israelis.
I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.