Israeli Election Update 2/21/2019
There's been a political earthquake in Israel.
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There's been a political earthquake in Israel.
Pro-diplomacy groups representing millions of American voters urge lawmakers to publicly articulate and support the following principles with respect to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that verifiably blocks each of Iran’s pathways to a nuclear weapon and created a much-needed diplomatic relationship between Iran, the United States, and U.S. allies
Two recent op-eds in the New York Times articulate the outer poles of the Israel debate.
In the first poll taken following Gantz’s speech, Walla! Newsfound that the Gantz-Ya’alon joint slate would garner 19 seats -- up from the 12-14 seats shown in previous polls. The Walla!survey found Likud dropping from 33 to 29 seats.
Gantz and Lapid Present Joint Slate as Polls Thrust Them Ahead of Likud, Haaretz
The newly-formed alliance between Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid, Kahol Lavan, would overtake Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud if a general election was held today, polls conducted by Channel 12, 13 and Israel’s public broadcaster, Kan, showed on Thursday evening. Just hours after Gantz and Lapid announced the formation of Kahol Lavan, Channel 12’s poll showed the union would get 36 seats in the next Knesset, while Likud would receive 30. Channel 13’s poll, meanwhile, predicted Kahol Lavan would get 36 seats, compared to 26 for Likud. Kan’s poll also put Kahol Lavan on first place, with 35 seats, with Likud coming in second with 32.
Democratic Party passes resolution calling for US to re-enter Iran nuke deal, Times of Israel
“The Democratic National Committee passed a resolution last week calling on the US to re-enter the Iran nuclear deal, a sign that the party’s 2020 presidential candidates will run on returning America to the landmark pact from which US President Donald Trump withdrew. “The United States should return to its obligations under the JCPOA and utilize multilateral and bilateral diplomacy to achieve political solutions to remaining challenges regarding Iran,” the document says.”
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