Tag: elections

Hamas received 5018 votes against Fatah, which only got 3379 votes.

Pro-Hezbollah parties did not fare as well as they had in the past in Lebanons elections.

Whether or not this vote happens is almost completely in the hands of the Islamic Ra'am party.

Her campaign was endorsed and supported by AIPAC and its new political action committee, which can support candidates directly.

Gantz claims that Bennett, Shaked and Sa'ar all know he is going to make this happen.

Jewish organizations call to “barrage” the extreme right candidate and vote for incumbent Emmanuel Macron

Just as surprising, were the results of a separate question asked about what end-result they'd like to see from the current coalition crisis.

The organization previously endorsed six candidates, bringing its total number of endorsements to 20.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has been a leader in the progressive “Squad” standing against Israel on key votes in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Nonetheless, a convincing majority of Virginia's Jews voted Democratic.

Rumor has it that Netanyahu is planning to offer Gantz a very sweet deal.

The city won't see the final results by the July 4 Day of Independence, nor by the July 14 French Bastille Day.

“The Flatbush Jewish community, our leadership, residents, yeshivah leaders, parents and business owners all agree that, for our community, the No. 1 issue in the election was public safety,” said community leader Chaskel Bennett.

We could go like this until July and still not have a final answer – especially as more than 200,000 absentee ballots are still waiting to be counted.

In this wonderful city that never sleeps, more second-picks are likely to go to Wiley than to the two guys ahead of her.

The following is an interview of Robert Cornegy that was conducted as part of an ongoing series of interviews of candidates running for Brooklyn Borough President.

The following is an interview of Shaun Donovan that was conducted as part of an ongoing series of interviews of candidates running for NYC Mayor.

The following is an interview with Jo Anne Simon that was conducted as part of an ongoing series of interviews of candidates running for Brooklyn Borough President.

The following is an interview of Maya Wiley that was conducted as part of an ongoing series of interviews of candidates running for NYC Mayor.

The following is an interview of Kathryn Garcia that was conducted as part of an ongoing series of interviews of candidates running for NYC Mayor.

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There are those that hope Netanyahu will take up the mantle, to break the deadlock in forming a coalition government.

Naftali Bennett had explicitly pledged that he would not sit in any government with Yair Lapid, “not with a rotation and not without a rotation,” because he “is right while Lapid is left.” It is now clear that he was negotiating the terms of a rotation the entire time.

The group, however, says it recognizes “the challenges involved with attempting to integrate Palestinian factions committed to nonviolence and diplomacy with those, like Hamas, that have frequently engaged in violence and terror.”

Hamas is projected to win the elections in Judea and Samaria.

If Abu Mazen postpones the election, he is expected to face a confrontation with Hamas.

Abu Mazen is supposedly looking for a way to cancel the elections.

We started to write one post this evening after watching what looked like an historic speech by Mansour Abbas (Ra’am party), but then we saw a very different speech he gave 4 days ago, in Arabic.

“For 30 years, we’ve tried the path of isolationism, and it hasn’t gotten us anywhere. It’s time for a change,” says a senior member of the Arab-Israeli party.

Senior Likud figure Tsahi Hanegbi openly called to rely on Ra'am.