It is so split 60 vs 60

Likud-Beitenu 31, and the 3 religious parties Shas 11, Habayit Hayehudi 11, United Torah Judaism 7 — 60
vs the rest.

One option (most likely) is Likud-Beitenu 31 seats and Yesh Atid 19 and Labour 15.

But Beitenu separating from Likud might complicate this.

Maybe Likud + Yesh Atid 19 and Labour 15 and Hatnua 6 and Kadima 2 might be the alternative.

Despite PM Binyamin Netanyahu claiming victory early (seemingly based on Exit Polls) it seem unlikely he’ll have a stable government over the next few year. Today in Israel his Likud coalition is down 11 seats (from 2009) to gain 31 seats (out of 120) the religious parties managed 29 so it appears that he’ll need some support from the centre for any long-term government to last.

To make matters worse the Yisrael Beiteinu faction of his Likud coalition say they plan to be a separate party in the Knesset. I think Israel will be voting again in 6-15 months as I can’t see how anyone to get any sort of coherent government from the result (so far).

Interestingly, despite being about 20% of the population Arab parties only gained 12 seats (or 10% of the seats). Even taking into account the higher proportion of Israeli Arab too young to vote if their turnout was the same you would expect 17-18 seats. Maybe a mix of apathy and boycott keep the numbers down (I realise that some vote for non arab parties too).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_legislative_election,_2013

“Despite struggling under a Greek-exposed debt mountain, the east Mediterranean island sits on potentially huge energy wealth in excess of 600 billion euros, a Royal Bank of Scotland report said.

Cyprus hydrocarbons company chief Charles Ellinas says the island will be exporting to Europe by 2019 with a view to meeting 10 percent of the bloc’s energy needs.

Offshore exploration by Houston-based Noble Energy in Block 12 of Cyprus’s Exclusive Economic Zone indicates a gross natural gas reserve of up to 254.9 billion cubic metres (9 trillion cubic feet).”

http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/10476

by: Emily Ford
From: The Times
January 23, 2013 3:08PM

CHINA has mounted a huge investment drive to explore its vast untapped reserves of shale gas in what it hopes could become a repeat of the energy revolution taking place in North America.

Sixteen Chinese companies, including 14 state-owned enterprises, pledged to invest ¥12.8billion when they won contracts from the Ministry of Land and Resources to search for shale gas in remote parts of the country over three years, according to Xinhua, the state news agency.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/china-spends-big-to-develop-shale-gas-industry/story-fnb64oi6-1226560151771

That’ll stuff the Arabs.

Just asking….

If you can’t feed them, don’t breed them.

The breeders don’t see it that way, they breed them and the TAXPAYER feeds them.
Vote Labour and get more votes

Manolo (8,831) Says:
January 23rd, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Is this guy related to Griff or Scott Chris?

Griff is to people what Morgan is to cats.

Seen this ?
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Further charges possible for John Banks
– http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/8212953/Further-charges-possible-for-John-Banks
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Just pointing this out before you-know-who drops umpteen paragraphs on you about it

Have a nice evening

Un-Judicially Recognised Kiwiblog Nuisance

However, she says she sees Mr Harawira’s aspirations as a joke.

“The fact is the Maori Party is led by the people and we’re not prepared to be led by any kind of dictatorship,” she told media at Ratana Marae, where the party has gathered for annual Ratana Church celebrations.

“Somebody who purports to represent our people, and to say that he’s got to be the leader, no, no, that’s not how it works in our party.”

She says the parties have tried to work together previously but it has not worked.

Mrs Turia added that when she read news reports of Mr Harawira’s leadership aspirations, she “thought Hone had started a comedy show”.

In the near future he’ll probably state the virus has been found….when he has enough dirty rats behind him…. Bill and Melinda gates are in the same phase…speaking depopulation but not yet confident enough to action it .

All on You tube

The Middle Schoolers where we moved–those girls were like in a state of scream. My daughter started getting that way. I took her off the school lunch and she calmed down immediately. Then I find out my son’s 5th grade Nazi teacher is trying to get them to report the parents aren’t feeding them right. And I am reading labels like crazy. What it is about is CONTROL. They will be dosing your kids behind your back. But what they are putting into their heads is far more toxic than in their bodies.

Good to see that you are now being even-handed and reporting on gay crime.

davinci, equanimity is my surname.

Look at the pattern

Freedoms are disappearing, government powers growing

The idea of suspending the Constitution was first presented in the mid 1980s during the Reagan administration.

No less a thug than the drug-dealing, murder-ordering, terrorist-supporting Oliver North was knee deep in the program.

Since then every US president – George Bush Sr, Bill Clinton, George Bush Jr, and Barack Obama – have steadily created oppressive laws and legal systems to “fight terrorism” while simultaneously violating basic Constitutional rights.

Simultaneously with this, the US military has received training on how to suppress the rights of and even attack US citizens on US soil. US police have been increasingly militarized and new armed federal agencies have spouted like weeds.

Why?

Doesn’t the US have enough serious problems to attend to without the need to laboriously create new “programs” to fight non-existent or government manufactured problems?

Instead the ONLY thing the US government has done consistently over the last 30 years (besides wage illegal wars and give Wall Street criminals a “get out of jail free” card) is create new secret “internal security” laws, bureaucracies, infrastructure and armed bodies.

http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-war-on-terror-is-a-fraud-1/why-intelligent-people-are-concerned.html