Netanyahu in media blitz says Labor could defeat him, but could the polls be fabricated?
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu launched a media blitz Thursday, granting interviews to Israeli television channels as well as other news sources, in a last-minute attempt to shore up support ahead of Tuesday’s national elections.
Netanyahu cited polls that show Likud’s main rival, Labor under Yitzhak Herzog, leads over Likud by several MKs. While most of the public wants a right wing government, he said – if Labor defeats Likud, the president could task it with creating the next government with the support of the Arab MKs.
However, News1 editor Yoav Yitzhak warned readers that the polls are not necessarily accurate.
“Guys, don’t believe the polls,” he wrote. “Some of them are purposely slanted. Yedioth Aharonoth refrained from publishing a poll last weekend whose results indicated that Likud is gaining strength.”
Netanyahu gave interviews to Channels 2 and 11. He agreed to give an interview to Channel 10, too, but his condition was that Raviv Drucker, a journalist who has been attacking him and his wife ferociously for years, not be the interviewer. Channel 10 decided to forego the interview.
Netanyahu told Channel 2 that he would not agree to a rotation government with Labor: “I will not be a prime minister in rotation, and that should be prevented,” he stated.
Netanyahu also lashed out against foreign-funded elements seeking to unseat him, to force Israel into making concessions against its good.
“There are vasts amounts of funds flowing from abroad, millions of dollars,” he said, claiming that “European states and left wing people from outside” Israel were funding non-governmental organizations that encourage Arabs and left wing Israelis to vote.
According to Netanyahu, this was “because they understand that if Tzipi and Buji reach (the premiership), they’ll give everything up, and withdraw to the 1967 borders and divide Jerusalem,” he said, using Herzog’s nickname.
AFP contributed to this report
@ dove:
@ dove:
Well said dove, well said indeed!!! 🙂
@ Teshuvah:
Israel is recognized to be the only democracy in the middle east. Actually, it is like any other ‘democratic’ country – a democracy in motion – in progress. No country has achieved democracy. You can’t opt out Arabs who are Israeli citizens.
Israel existed BEFORE the Jews so first and foremost Israel belongs to Hashem. When a people have been in exile from their homeland for as long as we have it takes awhile to get it right again. If only it were just the Muslims in the region who wanted to kill us. Then it would be a piece of cake – but in reality we are hated the world over thanks to other religions who still continue to persecute us and turn a blind eye.
I hope the Diaspora can hang around for awhile longer…..I am not interested in helping to fulfill the ‘other’ religions dreams – which are going to end up in smoke anyway.
In countries where elections are comprised of a mix of small parties, the government moves farther left with every election. I’m not in Israel, but believe Arabs should not get to vote in Israeli elections. In fact, transfer them OUT. G-d made Israel for Jews, not for Muslim riff raff who want to kill Jews. Muslims use the laws of a country in their favor and against the original inhabitants.
Why would the IL mass media be different from their American sisters!!!!Both are left/far left.
The pollsters do massage the numbers based on their assumptions. They are not an actual reflection of the numbers reported. So if the assumptions are not accurate the poll will not be accurate. So the poll that matters is the poll on the 17th and the subsequent party nod for who should be Prime Minister.