Election disaster
(Updated the 31st with the tighter / final seat numbers)

I got a few hours sleep last night, but I was beyond restless. Truth is I’m fretting and I know many Israeli and Jewish bloggers are in the same boat for varying reasons. The cause of my concern is the Israeli electorate and the shambles they have put together, no doubt much in part to the self serving animals known as Israeli politicians. The right failed the right, the left failed the left and the center failed the center. The result is the most fragmented mess of nothingness one could ever imagine, where everyone loses.

Who won? Nobody won, least of all Israel.
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Initial exit polls have been released..

Keep in mind these are exit polls, not election results. The polls from seperate channels are different by a few seats.

here’s the avg look
Kadima 29-31
Labor 19-22
Big mover Israel at Home 12-14
Likud 10-12

Until final results are in the picture is not fully clear, just two months ago Fatah won the PA elections in exit polls, and today Hamas has approved their terrorist Government! In any case, these results seem to be a poor showing for Kadima & the Likud.
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Possibly the most important vote in Israel’s history showing record low turn out

Israelis, constantly rewarded for their efforts towards peace with violence, homicidal maniacs, world wide scorn, and now a new Hamas terrorist entity appear somewhat demoralized by the burden of their Palestinian friends. Sick and tired and running out of patience in the Middle East usually means only one thing.. There’s likely some serious violence coming. Kadima, Labor, Likud, any way you slice this pie the Peace Process is long dead, today it gets buried.

Looking for Kadima front man Ehud? Perhaps wondering where the heck he is with elections mere days away? Seems the UK Telegraph found him and serves up a bio, as well as some insight to his "I’m not here" election strategy ; )

The elections have been boring to my shagrin, some mud slinging, some poll movement, but not much in the way of platforms or policy, everyone seems to be banking on Kadima (the media at least)..

Here’s one guy making some waves, the kind of waves that call for a right wing government not formed of Kadima, but put forward by a unified Likud led right wing. With 20% undecided, there are more than enough votes out there to make the wave a tsunami on election day. Personally, I’d take it over a Kadima / Labor coalition.

Labor mused this week about the Foreign Affairs portfolio, or the Defense portfolio if they got into the coalition.. That kind of crazy talk is more than enough to scare me off a Kadima vote, I’m pretty sure there are 20% out there who might be inclined to agree.. Flirting with Labor is not a great strategy to employ when a chunk of your support is made up from the Likud.

Yediot has a fresh poll showing Kadima gaining a 2 seat bump (39) from the Jericho IDF operation this week. I skipped two other earlier polls by Haaretz that showed wacky results, sample size was about 600 people.. Too small.

Labour down 1 seat to 19, Likud at 15, Shas 11, National Union 8, Israel Home 10, Meretz 4.

Also, Ynet has their 2006 page up with a few articles and opinion pieces on the elections. Also included is a good summary on each of the parties. Pundits are calling this weekend’s poll numbers ‘crucial’.

Tags: Israel, Elections