With the vote on Tuesday looking closer and closer in recent polls, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looked to shore up his support on the extremely far-right this afternoon, with a new interview published in which he vowed to never dismantle any settlements under any circumstances.
“We haven’t uprooted any settlements, we have expanded them,” Netanyahu added, saying that this proved his “commitment to Zionism and the settlements.” The comments reflected growing attacks from even farther-right parties promising to expand settlements even more.
And while this reflects Netanyahu’s determination not to be undercut on the right, it leaves open the question of whether this will help or hurt him with the 10-15% of voters who remain undecided, particularly since polls have shown broad support among Israeli voters for major cuts in settlement funding.
Israel bans news outlets from releasing any addition polls about the election after this evening, but the last round shows the far-right with a narrow lead over the center-left and Netanyahu’s list continuing to lose ground within the far-right to Jewish Home.
To what extent do Jewish Americans agree with Netanyahu's policies? Seems to me this is bad publicity for Israel, but perhaps it's an important point regarding the country's existence or future.
That's his last hope to get some vote from those who stats and US tax payers pays them to be who they are…, settlers..! Every one of them costs the U.S tax payers 250.000 dollars every year.
And this is the guy Rand Paul supports?
Yeah. As it turns out, Rand Paul is just another Israeli-purchased shill with no regard for truth or humanity; yet quite focused on his own wallet and political career. I once hoped he would carry on his father's legacy – instead he turned out to be an absolute disgrace with dual allegiances.
What a shame…..
Rand Paul is a washed up politician who is looking for attention.
I challenge Netanyahu to stand by his words for more than 15 years.
Himself and the settler scum, mostly by the way are inbred idiots, will leave Palestine with ready housing for palstenians thanks to US taxpayers.
They will be lucky to be let to live in the 1947 partitioned part.
Just building them for Palestinians to move into later!