Netanyahu Blames Flagging Poll Numbers On Global Leftist Plot

[Cali_Democrat]

Source: Huffington Post



JERUSALEM, March 14 (Reuters) - Flagging in opinion polls before Tuesday's election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to rally Israeli rightists by casting his center-left challengers as tools of a global campaign to usurp power.

Over social media and broadcast interviews, the three-term leader has accused unspecified foreign governments and tycoons of funneling "tens of millions of dollars" to opposition activists working to undermine his Likud party and boost the Zionist Union joint list led by Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni.

"Right-wing rule is in danger. Leftist elements and the media in this country and abroad have joined forces to illegitimately bring Tzipi and Bougie (Herzog) to power," Netanyahu said on Facebook on Friday.

The Zionist Union dismissed the rhetorical fusillade as a bid by Netanyahu to shift voters' attention from socio-economic problems to security challenges like the Palestinians' drive for statehood and Iran's nuclear program, on which the prime minister argues he alone can resist foreign pressure to yield.

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[hobbit709]

1. What a whiner.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. I think Bibi's right on this one.

At least I know a helluva lot of leftists who would be happier with him out of power.

The only slight credulity strainer here lies in the notion that leftists could actually organize to do anything.

[Shrike47]

5. If us cats would only get herded, we'd be an awesome force!

[Fred Sanders]

16. They did organize, have you not seen the headlines about Bibi's and his ally's folly in the foreign media of America?

Then there is the WH petition with over 300,000 signatures which will require a WH response - maybe on Monday?..it is a plot, so sweet and secret there is nothing Bibi can do about it.

American media is widely viewed in Israel, it is a connected world of politics and elections.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Save the whining for Wedneesday, Bibi.

Don't use it up so soon.

[leftofcool]

4. Stick a fork in Bibi, he's done!

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. Mmmmm, I loves me some BibiQue in the morning!

[Frances]

6. The hypocrite!

He's using footage of his speech to a foreign government in his campaign ads!

[samsingh]

7. it couldn't just be that you've a disgusting miserable would be leader

[Dustlawyer]

36. Yes, and your hard line song has gotten old!

[samsingh]

38. exactly

[Fred Sanders]

8. Leftists can plot too, Bibi. Hope over fear is what you see plotted. Fair turnaround. Only when leftists win do you cons whine.

The quiet, calm, methodical, logical, long range plodding plotting of Obama is like the tortoise and the hare....the finish line is coming up for Bibi.

[samsingh]

9. good. this is the last throes of every right wing moron who knows he's losing

[Jack Rabbit]

10. Wow, that's desperation

Has Bibi always been this paranoid?

And who is Bibi of Washington to complain about foreign leaders interfering in another country's affairs?

[Berlin Expat]

12. If Bibi's

whining about some "global leftist plot" to bring him down, and in public to boot, Likud's internal polling must be showing them doing worse than what's out there in the media.

We shall see. Nonetheless, if Bibi and Likud were defeated, I'd do a happy dance.

[Fred Sanders]

15. Bibi is whining about the NYT editorial and so many other "leftist plots" in AMERICAN media....foreign media.

[underpants]

27. He appears to be following the Murkan Repub media playbook

Play victim. The leftist media blah blah blah. Etc.

[vlyons]

11. I'm shocked! Leftists know how to plot, organize, and win?

It's about time that leftists got together globally to stop war-mongers like BiBi. He stinks.

[OldRedneck]

14. He's right . . .

It's those damned leftists. Sonsabitches are everywhere!!!! QUICK, BIBI -- LOOK UNDER YOUR BED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bluenorthwest]

17. I hesitate to predict even our own elections but I am cautiously optimistic, his rhetoric here is

strongly suggestive of panic. Strongly.

[Berlin Expat]

21. Yeah, this is starting

to smell of panic. I'm thinking Likud's internal polling might be showing even worse results for them than what's been reported in the media, because it sure stinks of fear.

[George II]

18. Quite the idiot, isn't he? I'm surprised he doesn't just blame his impending loss....

...on the fact that people aren't voting for him.

Let's hope he's on his way out!

[tridim]

19. The necons are insane.

Not "going insane", they are already there.

I love that the world is rejecting the right.

[Turbineguy]

20. Nah

He should blame the American GOP. He underestimated their stupidity.

[Renew Deal]

22. "illegitimately"

[Liberalagogo]

23. Geeez..

Are ALL wingnuts around the world EXACTLY the same? None of them take ANY responsibility. It's always someone else's fault or some kind of conspiracy. Newsflash, Netanyahu, if leftists could organize globally, you NEVER would have gotten into power, never would have been allowed into the US to make some worthless speech, and most of the BS in the Middle East wouldn't be happening.

So, just shut your whiny pathetic self up.

[Cosmocat]

46. Stunning isn't it?

nm

[lewebley3]

24. Everyone is leftist compared to Bibi: (maybe Cotton and the 47 are an exceptions)

The 47 traitor Senators are willing committed treason to
make sure a war get's conducted: They are willing line their
pocket with dead American Solders.


I am crossing my fingers for all the people of the world that he is
defeated, and takes the GOP traitors with him in his down fall.

[Sunlei]

25. all his key words are similar to a rove-republican campaign

[War Horse]

26. Seems like he is starting to lose it

Literally and figuratively.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

28. Uh oh Bibi

Better get yourself one of these

[Trillo]

29. Doesn't this belong in Creative Speculation? NT

[First Speaker]

30. "Illegitimately"...?

...this is a strong word. Is Bibi laying the groundwork for an Israeli version of the "stab-in-the-back" myth? Or even possibly for contesting the results of the election, should he lose? Frankly, the Likud Party seems more and more to have a One Party mentality...only they are "legitimate". They--and Israel--might be starting down a dark path...

[The_Commonist]

31. What a maroon...

I agree with everything he said in this snip, except for the "illegitimately" part.
And let's hope and pray that "Right-wing rule is in danger."
Right-wing rule IS the danger, and hopefully the Israeli people get that, and vote him out.

[herding cats]

32. There's nothing quite as interesting to watch as a scared hypocrite in full panic mode.

I don't know how things will come out after the election in Israel, but Bibi is not going to go down without a very nasty fight.

[Bleacher Creature]

33. This is a real tell.

He's in trouble, and he knows it.

[oldandhappy]

34. He is an excellent Republican!

Talks personal responsibility abut does not take personal responsibility. Go Go, Bibi. Babble on.

[valerief]

39. I'm surprised the GOP hasn't made him a 2016 prez candidate *here*. nt

[geek tragedy]

35. He and Maduro would make a great comedy duo nt

[frylock]

37. muahahaha.....

[graegoyle]

40. That conspiracy:

Hope for peace. Peace is a leftist ideology.

[tabasco]

41. Yeah! No doubt, dude.

Now pass the bong.

[MrModerate]

42. It's much simpler than that, Bibi . . .

People hate your stinking guts and think your policies will ultimately lead to disaster for Israel.

No shadowy "left wing" plots required.

[libodem]

43. It's fucking true, too

We're all hooked up on the space-time continuum mind melding with our collective unconsciousness to give him the Eric Cantor treatment.

His God is really our Goddess and she hates collective punishment of human being because of their religion.

He'll be gone soon.

[Thinkingabout]

44. A story I heard some years back, "Have you ever stuck your finger in a glass of water?

If you did, when you took your finger out did it leave a hole?"The same goes for Bibi. He needs to man up and accept he got beat. He may have played the GOP's like a fiddle but it may not work with the voters.

[LeftishBrit]

45. WOW

He is becoming unhinged. Or it's becoming more obvious that he's unhinged.

'Right-wing rule is in danger. Leftist elements and the media in this country and abroad have joined forces to illegitimately bring Tzipi and Bougie (Herzog) to power'

Otherwise known as democratic elections.