. . .  if re-elected.   
      
   Wow, if that's not a platform that should earn the vilification and   
   condemnation of Israel by countries all over the globe, then I don't know what   
   would.  Israel is a rogue state ruled by rogues backed by an American   
   presidential rogue.   
      
   No semitism-protecting laws should stop the world from raising its collective   
   voice in anger and demands for curbing Israel's heinous actions.   
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   Israel's Netanyahu fights for new term after decade in power   
      
      
   JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a battle   
   for political survival in a closely fought election on Tuesday that could end   
   his 10-year domination of national politics.   
      
   Opinion polls put former armed forces chief Benny Gantz’s centrist Blue and   
   White party neck-and-neck with Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud, and suggest the   
   far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party could emerge as kingmaker in coalition talks.   
      
   The two main parties’ campaigns in Israel’s second parliamentary election   
   in five months point to only narrow differences on many important issues: the   
   regional struggle against Iran, ties with the Palestinians and the United   
   States, and the stable    
   economy.   
      
   An end to the Netanyahu era would be unlikely to lead to a big change in   
   policy on hotly disputed issues in the peace process with the Palestinians   
   that collapsed five years ago.   
      
   Netanyahu has announced his intention to annex the Jordan Valley in the   
   occupied West Bank, where the Palestinians seek statehood. But Blue and White   
   has also said it would strengthen Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank,   
   with the Jordan Valley as    
   Israel’s “eastern security border”.   
      
   The election was called after Netanyahu failed to form a coalition following   
   an April election in which Likud and Blue and White were tied, each taking 35   
   of the 120 seats in the Knesset, or parliament.   
      
   Netanyahu, 69, has cast himself as indispensable and blighted by voter   
   complacency over his tenure - the longest of any Israeli prime minister. He   
   was prime minister from June 1996 until July 1999 and has held the post since   
   March 2009.   
      
   Warning he may be replaced by “leftists” who would weaken Israel in the   
   eyes of both foes and friends, Netanyahu has flooded the airwaves and social   
   media with calls on his Likud faithful to turn out in force.   
      
   “It’s up to you! The (Likud) lead is very small,” he appealed hoarsely   
   in a video message posted on Twitter.   
      
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   It's up to *all of us* to stand up to Israel on behalf of the Palestinian   
   people.   
      
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