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[–] 73 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly warned on Tuesday of what he claimed was unusually high voter turnout in Arab communities, accusing Arab voters and left-wing parties of trying to "steal the election."

In a series of social media posts, Netanyahu shared photos of Arab citizens casting their ballots alongside images of supposedly empty polling stations in cities considered Likud strongholds.

"Steal" the election by going out to vote while your voters stay home. He explained in text with supporting imagery how this wasn't fake votes for his opponents or discarded votes from his supporters, but calls it stealing nevertheless.

Also, I don't know what Israel's voting situation is like, but crowded polling places in minority areas and empty (i.e., fast and convenient) polling places in majority areas sounds like the intended results of voter suppression efforts.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    The right has become way too comfortable with the idea that they're the only legitimate side to govern any country. It's "stealing" because it's "rightfully theirs", and any attempt to take that power, however legitimate, is an affront, an offence.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 weeks ago*

    It isn't about right vs left in Israel. This is about apartheid and racism because those "pesky Arabs" shouldn't even be allowed to vote. They even tried to make Arab/Palestinian parties illegal and ineligible to run for elections. That's a good chunk of the rhetoric in israel.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Closely related to their love for hierarchies as the "natural order". Democracy is fine as long as it solidifies the rule of the politicians they stupidly identify with. As soon as progressives gain power and start actually representing disenfranchised people, this order is violated, and that feels to conservatives like society itself is crumbling and any means are justified to "fix" it. Up to collaborating with fascists that promise to make us go away.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 weeks ago

    Watch them pull a trump and not honor the election results.

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  • [–] 89 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    NOT allowing a Large Population to have Representation is NOT Apartheid and if you Even THINK it Is your ANTI SEMETIC!

    -The BBC!

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  • [–] 22 points 2 weeks ago

    This guy is such a piece of fucking shit, I hope he ends in prison. Even then though, I bet he gets cushy treatment. He should be thrown to the fucking sharks.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Fascists hate democracy.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    I will be astounded if he loses. But even if he does, will he leave office?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    also the other parties are more right wing than he is.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    It's hard to view Israeli politics from a western perspective

    Most other parties have much softer stances on the West Bank, for example

    None of the likely future PMs have a substantially different policy on Gaza

    There is a bit of variety of opinions of Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, although most plan to annex them eventually

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    He will lose, he can't hold it together, not after 10/7 and his failure to be the law and order prime minister.

    The new government will be even worse though from what I hear.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    The opposite is true and I"ve been saying it since 10/8. I've been right so far. His coalition could already have failed if I was wrong. I believe I will continue to be right.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Just like Trump, the only way he can win is by cheating and depriving people of their votes.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Can we make it three for three?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    isnt most of israel jewish. benny is the most antisemetic jew out there

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Netanyahu might go but the worse president will come

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