Latest / The Slippery Slope / Israel’s Yair Lapid congratulates Benjamin Netanyahu on election victory

Transcript

Israel’s Yair Lapid congratulates Benjamin Netanyahu on election victory · The Slippery Slope

• 0:04
  Hi. I'm Jay Fallon and thank you for
• 0:05
  listening to the slippery slope. Wow that's about all I can say
• 0:10
  when you look at the Israeli elections and done I'm just
• 0:16
  scratching my head. Looks like netanyahu's back in.
• 0:18
  Apparently this headline came through here in Australia, from
• 0:22
  the guardian says Israel's. Yeah, lipid congratulates
• 0:26
  Benjamin and Netanyahu on election of victory.
• 0:30
  So Israel's prime minister lipid has called Benjamin Netanyahu to
• 0:35
  offer his congratulations on the opposition leaders election win.
• 0:39
  Following the conclusion of vote counting in this week's election
• 0:43
  Netanyahu chair of the conservative liquid party and
• 0:47
  Israel's longest serving prime minister is expected to begin.
• 0:51
  An unprecedented third term as Premier after holding Coalition
• 0:56
  negotiations with his religious and far-right allies and Mina
• 1:00
  government the block which includes the extremist religious
• 1:04
  Zionist party. That's their terminology with
• 1:07
  extremists and to ultra-orthodox parties.
• 1:11
  One comfortable majority in Tuesday's election, the
• 1:16
  country's fifth in four years. The I tell you what these guys
• 1:22
  have more elections in Australia and the UK, the state of Israel
• 1:26
  comes before any political considerations Ocean.
• 1:30
  I wish Netanyahu success for the sake of the people of Israel in
• 1:34
  the state of Israel. And the peed said in a
• 1:37
  statement, adding that the Prime Minister had instructed his
• 1:40
  office to prepare for an organized transition of power.
• 1:45
  So Netanyahu was removed from office last summer by diverse
• 1:49
  Coalition, which formed a so-called government of change
• 1:54
  in fighting led to its downfall year later.
• 1:56
  And listen, we could all see that was Happen.
• 2:00
  Because in none of it really made sense from the very start
• 2:03
  almost from Dyke dots. You can see there was gonna be
• 2:07
  major problems and it was not going to work properly.
• 2:10
  Anyway, they gave it a go, but what can you say so?
• 2:15
  So moving on, as with the fourth other elections.
• 2:18
  Since to 2019, this week's poll, was another referendum on
• 2:22
  Netanyahu suitability to govern. The 73-year old is on trial for
• 2:27
  corruption charges, which he denies?
• 2:29
  Sighs and if you've seen as corruption charges but that they
• 2:33
  seem pretty flimsy, to be honest.
• 2:35
  Anyway, so says polling consistently predicted that the
• 2:38
  pro and anti Netanyahu blocks would yet.
• 2:41
  Again, end in deadlock with the camps on about 60 seats each in
• 2:46
  the 120 knesset so exit polls and choose their night.
• 2:50
  However suggested that, the long-term leader longtime leader
• 2:54
  and his allies would scrape a majority with 61 and their lead
• 2:59
  had extended. Comfortable, 65 65 seats by the
• 3:03
  time the vote tally finished on Thursday afternoon.
• 3:07
  Official results will be released next Wednesday.
• 3:11
  Netanyahu will in all probability return to office in
• 3:15
  a few weeks, time at the head of the most right-wing government
• 3:20
  in Israel's history. He was able to end the four-year
• 3:24
  political crisis by persuading. Three small far-right Fringe
• 3:27
  parties to merge into one slate, called the religious zionists
• 3:33
  ahead of the 2021 election. Pushing them over the Electoral
• 3:38
  threshold than into the knesset. This time round the Chuckling
• 3:42
  popularity of the religious Zionist.
• 3:44
  Deputy it's a man been Viper. Think that's how you pronounce
• 3:49
  it. Helped the party.
• 3:51
  More than double the number of seats with 14 died.
• 3:54
  And now, the third largest party in Parliament and will likely
• 3:58
  receive important ministerial positions in the new government.
• 4:02
  So, a former follower of the band, cash, terrorist group,
• 4:06
  with conviction, for inciting racism, been give our support
• 4:11
  It's altering Israel's legal code, which could help Netanyahu
• 4:16
  evade a conviction in his corruption chop trial.
• 4:19
  He has also lobbied for the deportation of disloyal.
• 4:24
  Palestinian citizens of Israel. Can I just say, doesn't that
• 4:28
  make sense? It really does.
• 4:31
  Why do I do for starters? I never understand why people
• 4:36
  want to stay in the nation, when they hate it so much.
• 4:39
  We have the same. We have similar issues here in
• 4:41
  Australia. People to stand up.
• 4:43
  They seem to hate the nation of Australia and yet they insist on
• 4:46
  living here because they want to change it to their point of
• 4:50
  view. You know, if you if you weren't
• 4:53
  born here and you're not happy with the country that you're
• 4:55
  living in, you can always move somewhere else, that's all I'm
• 4:59
  saying. So I'm moving on anyway.
• 5:01
  So Arab Israeli politician Suleiman said on Wednesday that
• 5:06
  Netanyahu would be forming a government with fascist fascist
• 5:11
  by his side. Side.
• 5:12
  Like I'm not really sure it's fascist by his side but anyway
• 5:16
  it's just pretty remarkable stuff.
• 5:18
  Netanyahu back in power again in Israel this in my opinion is
• 5:23
  Israel. Needs a strong hand at the helm
• 5:27
  and Netanyahu. When you look at the choices
• 5:30
  they have he seems to be the man for the job.
• 5:33
  They need someone strong, they need strong leadership.
• 5:36
  They definitely lacked strong leadership for the last 12
• 5:40
  months. I'm not counting say they're
• 5:43
  like strong leadership. They just lacked leadership at
• 5:47
  all. They need Netanyahu back in
• 5:50
  charge. I think it's a good thing.
• 5:52
  Let me know what you think, but very interesting times.
• 5:57
  It's let's see how it's How It All unfolds and how it all fits
• 6:01
  into Bible prophecy. This is just my opinion.
• 6:04
  Thank you for listening to the slippery slope.