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Most Israelis Disapprove of Their New Government, Poll Finds

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Posted on Mar 31, 2009
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An Israeli in a Jerusalem shop watches a telecast of Benjamin Netanyahu speaking after he was sworn in as prime minister on Tuesday. Netanyahu’s first stint as prime minister was from June 1996 to July 1999.

There’s no putting it any better than Haaretz did: “The Knesset approved Benjamin Netanyahu’s return as prime minister last night amid allegations that his new government is bloated, convoluted and unprepared to deal with Israel’s many problems.” The newspaper surveyed the Israeli public and found that 54 percent already disapprove of the new regime.

Haaretz:

The Knesset approved Benjamin Netanyahu’s return as prime minister last night amid allegations that his new government is bloated, convoluted and unprepared to deal with Israel’s many problems.

According to a survey for Haaretz, the public is not giving the new government a grace period, perhaps because it has so many ministers and deputy ministers, or because so many of them have dubious portfolios.

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By samosamo, April 1, 2009 at 2:24 pm Link to this comment

Is it coincidental that the US and izrael both have new governments, so to speak, that don’t have the approval of MOST of the people, except in the case of our president as 2 months in office hasn’t got him too much disapproval yet.
Any more evidence needed that is doesn’t matter who is elected because the ‘elite’ hidding behind the skirt of the curtains are dictating policy and procedure?

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By Thomas Mc, April 1, 2009 at 9:48 am Link to this comment

The Israelis voted for their own national destruction, I have no sympathy.

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By photoshock, April 1, 2009 at 7:56 am Link to this comment

Of course the Jewish population disapproves of their new government!  They’re the ones who voted for it!
As far as I could throw them, the new government is not to be trusted and should not be installed. They will wreck any chances of a peace accord with Hamas, they will commit GENOCIDE, the Palestinian people will suffer worse then ever before and more crimes against humanity will occur because as the new government will feel, they have a mandate to squash like a bug, the Palestinians and their government.
Haaretz, is not to be trusted in their reporting because they are the mouthpiece of an outrageously immoral government that continues to believe its own lies and continues to deceive the world into thinking
that Israel is the victim in all of the current troubles.
I for one, Jewish though I am, feel that the Zionists
have gone way too far in their quest for victimhood!
They have flouted international conventions against inhumane treatment of prisoners, the innocent victims
of their schemes of genocide are right now, living and dying, right in front of the worlds eyes and we are doing nothing to censure and stop the Zionists from committing these atrocities.
Should there ever be an accounting before some tribunal of an eternal nature, the Zionists, will pay
the price for their overzealous and obviously inhumane natures.

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