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LeftishBrit

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12. Netanyahu got 21.6 % of the votes in the last election!
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 06:01 PM
Sep 2012

Makes Cameron's 36% look almost like a mandate.

Complete proportional representation (Israel) and complete lack of it (UK) in a multi-party system both distort democracy badly.

Admittedly some of Netanyahu's non-voters voted for other right-wing parties, but he is still hardly the unanimous choice of Israel!

And certainly NOT 'the leader of the Jewish people'.

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