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| − | == Netanyahu Seeks Strong Finish in Israel Election ==
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| − | <div id="plc_lt_zoneContent_pageplaceholder_pageplaceholder_lt_zoneLeft_NewsmaxArticleLayout_pnl" class="artPgMnStryWrapper"> JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an election-eve appeal on Monday to wavering supporters to "come home," showing concern over a forecast far-right surge that would keep him in power but weaken him politically.<p>In the last stretch of a largely lackluster campaign that could produce the most hardline government in Israel's history, Netanyahu has watched high-tech millionaire Naftali Bennett's far-right Jewish Home party chip away at his right-wing Likud's opinion poll lead.</p><p>At a final campaign appearance in Jerusalem, Netanyahu voiced confidence his traditional backers would not abandon him,Toms Outlet, and repeated his stump pledges to keep Israel safe and build Jewish settlements over international opposition.</p><p>He has said preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons would remain his priority. During the campaign,Coach and General M, parties have avoided discussing the sensitive question of whether and when to use military force against Iran, which denies seeking atomic arms.</p><p>"I have no doubt that many, many people will decide at the last minute to come home to Likud-Yisrael Beitenu," said Netanyahu, who polls predict will still win Tuesday's parliamentary election, albeit by a narrower margin than first forecast.</p><p>",Toms Shoes;I have a good feeling. And at the last minute, I appeal to each and every citizen going to the ballot box: 'Decide for whom you are going to vote — for a divided and weak Israel or for a united and strong Israel and a large governing party?'."</p><p>The final opinion polls,karen millen outlet, on Friday, showed Netanyahu's right-wing Likud, running on a joint list of candidates with former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's ultranationalist Yisrael Beitenu party, still set to win.</p><p>But the surveys indicated his support had dipped to its lowest point so far and forecast that a potential right-wing and religious bloc of parties led by Likud-Yisrael Beitenu would have a slim parliamentary majority of 63 out of 120 seats.</p><p>If the polls are correct — and they have been famously inaccurate in several past elections — Likud and Yisrael Beitenu would capture 10 seats fewer than they took in the previous national ballot in 2009.</p><p>A relatively weak showing would make Netanyahu,karen millen, who has pledged during the campaign to pursue settlement building in the occupied West Bank, more susceptible to the demands of potential coalition partners, including Bennett, and religious parties,Toms Shoes Sale.</p><p>And with peace talks with the Palestinians frozen since 2010 over the settlement issue, there would be little incentive for Netanyahu to pursue any new initiatives as head of a staunchly right-wing government, although he would likely come under pressure to do so if he enlists centrist partners.</p><p>Bennett, a charismatic former settler leader, advocates annexing parts of the West Bank, territory Israel captured along with east Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights, in the 1967 war, a position to the right of Netanyahu's.</p><p>Jewish Home has been the surprise start-up party of the election, forecast to win some 14 seats in a third-place finish.</p><p>Second place, according to the polls, will go to the center-left Labor Party led by Shelly Yachimovich, a former journalist who has focused on economic and social issues in the campaign and has ruled out joining a Netanyahu-led government.</p><p>Although support for center-left parties has edged higher, their leaders failed to present a united front or persuade many Israelis, alarmed by turmoil in neighboring Arab states, they are ready to take charge of the country.</p><p>SURPRISE SURGE</p><p>Bennett's surge has been the talking point of the election, but for voters who have cast ballots for Netanyahu in the past, the Jewish Home leader has a familiar pedigree.</p><p>Both are former army commandos and speak American-accented English: Netanyahu went to high school and college in the United States,Toms Outlet, Bennett's parents immigrated from San Francisco. And each has put settlement expansion at the core of his campaign.</p><p>Bennett has made no secret of his desire to join a Netanyahu-led coalition, to the point of plastering the country with campaign ads featuring photos of both leaders.</p><p>While Netanyahu still advocates creation of a "demilitarized" Palestinian state, an alliance with Jewish Home would steer his government further to right,karen millen uk, potentially putting further strain on his relations with President Barack Obama and deepening Israel's international isolation.</p><p>Netanyahu has campaigned largely on security issues, shrugging off as misplaced international opposition to settlement building that most countries view as illegal and which he sees as a Jewish right based on the Bible and history.</p><p>A splintered center-left bloc, whose parties hope to win a majority but may also join a Netanyahu-led government, has had trouble finding a joint message in opposition.</p><p>Yachimovich,Toms Shoes, whose Labor party is forecast to win about 18 seats, has focused on high living costs and economic woes, hoping to translate mass social protests from two years ago into an election victory.</p><p>Tzipi Livni, a former foreign minister and negotiator with the Palestinians,Except for which ha, has promised to work for a regional peace deal. Her Hatnuah party is expected to win fewer than 10 seats.</p><p>In the final hours of the campaign, Netanyahu also took new aim at pocketbook issues, after being rocked by figures last week that showed Israel's budget deficit last year was,Toms Outlet, at 4.2 percent of gross domestic product, double the original estimate.</p><p>He announced he would appoint Moshe Kahlon, who as his widely popular communications minister brought down the price of mobile telephone services, to oversee state land allocation - with the aim of lowering housing prices.</p><p>Polling stations open at 7 a.m. on Tuesday and close at 10 p,Toms Shoes.m.. Immediately after voting ends, Israeli media release exit polls, with official results due the next morning and party leaders already beginning informal coalition talks.</p><p>No one party has ever won a parliamentary majority in Israel, and its president traditionally asks the leader of the biggest bloc to try to form a governing coalition, a process likely to stretch into next month.</p> <p> ©,Condi Rice Theres No Way Ill Be VP Candidate; 2013 Thomson/Reuters. All rights reserved. </p> </div>
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| − | == Alabama Poll Santorum Leads Romney ==
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| − | <div id="plc_lt_zoneContent_pageplaceholder_pageplaceholder_lt_zoneLeft_NewsmaxArticleLayout_pnl" class="artPgMnStryWrapper"> Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum leads Mitt Romney in an Alabama poll on the eve of the former Pennsylvania senator’s first campaign trip to the state in advance of the primary election there on Tuesday, according to . <br /><br />Santorum received 22,brand recognition a.7 percent,Toms Shoes, compared with 18,Toms Shoes Sale,Reid Tells Obama to Bypass Congress on Debt Ceiling.7 percent for the former Massachusetts governor, in the poll, which Alabama State University’s Center for Leadership and Public Policy conducted on March 1. Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia received 13,karen millen dresses.8 percent in the poll, which did not include Rep. Ron Paul,karen millen.<br /><br />The poll showed that support for Gingrich has fallen since the university center began tracking the race five weeks ago,karen millen dresses, said political science professor Thomas Vocino,Toms. Gingrich had led the field with 26.9 percent in a Feb,karen millen outlet. 2 poll.<br /><br />Santorum picked up Gingrich’s support, Vocino said. Romney&rsquo,criminal law espec;s numbers have remained between 16 percent and 18 percent. <br /><br />However, the telephone poll of 470 likely Republican voters also shows that 29.8 percent of are undecided on whom they will vote for in the primary,karen millen outlet. And 15 percent said they intended to support other candidates in the primary.<br /><br />Santorum is scheduled to make campaign appearances today in Huntsville and Mobile. Gingrich canceled plans in Kansas this week to woo voters in Alabama and Mississippi,karen millen outlet.<br /><br /> <p> © 2013 Newsmax,Toms Shoes Sale. All rights reserved. </p> </div>
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| − | == Vatican Hails UN Palestine Vote, Wants Guarantees for Jerusa ==
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| − | <div id="plc_lt_zoneContent_pageplaceholder_pageplaceholder_lt_zoneLeft_NewsmaxArticleLayout_pnl" class="artPgMnStryWrapper"> The Vatican hailed the United Nations' implicit recognition of a Palestinian state on Thursday and called for an internationally guaranteed special status for Jerusalem,Toms Outlet, something bound to irritate Israel.<p>The 193-nation U.N,karen millen outlet,and instead ruled t. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution to upgrade the Palestinian Authority's observer status at the United Nations from "entity" to "non-member state,and more than 400 r," the same status as the Vatican,Poll Sen. Brown, Warren Running Close in Mass..</p><p>"The Holy See welcomes with favour the decision of the General Assembly by which Palestine has become a Non-member Observer State of the United Nations,",Toms Shoes; a statement said.</p><p>But it also said it was a ",karen millen dresses;propitious occasion" to recall a "common position" on Jerusalem expressed by the Vatican and the Palestine Liberation Organisation when the two sides signed a basic agreement on their bilateral relations in 2000.</p><p>Thursday's statement called for "an internationally guaranteed special statute" for Jerusalem, aimed at "safeguarding the freedom of religion and of conscience, the identity and sacred character of Jerusalem as a Holy City, [and] respect for, and freedom of,karen millen sale, access to its holy places."</p><p>The Vatican's re-stating of its position on Jerusalem,karen millen, which has remained mostly dormant for years, was bound to irk Israel,karen millen uk, which says there is no need for an international status for Jerusalem because those guarantees already exist.</p><p>Israel declared Jerusalem its "united and eternal",Toms; capital in 1980 after annexing East Jerusalem in the Six Day War in 1967. World powers have not recognised the annexation.</p><p>Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of an eventual state.</p><p>Israel has always resisted the concept of any form of international mandate over Jerusalem.</p><p>It has been some time since the Vatican re-stated its position on the city so forcefully, and Thursday's statement was bound to be received negatively by Israel, a diplomat with direct knowledge of their relations said.</p><p>Israel has always maintained that it already guarantees the city's special nature as sacred to the three great monotheistic religions — Christianity, Judaism,Toms Shoes, and Islam.</p><p>Thursday's statement called on both sides to seek an "effective commitment to building peace and stability, in justice and in the respect for legitimate aspirations, both of the Israelis and of the Palestinians."</p><p>The Vatican and Israel established full diplomatic relations in 1994. Both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict visited the Jewish state and Palestinian territories.</p> <p> © 2013 Thomson/Reuters. All rights reserved,Toms Shoes Outlet. </p> </div>
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| − | == Daily Caller Stock Trades Show Possible Obamacare Ruling Lea ==
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| − | <div id="plc_lt_zoneContent_pageplaceholder_pageplaceholder_lt_zoneLeft_NewsmaxArticleLayout_pnl" class="artPgMnStryWrapper"> Stock trades taking place moments before the Supreme Court ruled that President Barack Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was constitutional may indicate a leak to Wall Street traders,karen millen sale, <br /><br />Shares in a hospital company jumped just prior to the announcement that mandating individuals to buy health insurance wasn't unconstitutional since it basically levies a tax on those who don't.<br /><br />"In a brief 10-minute period starting at 9:32 a.m., the stock value of the nation’s largest hospital chain, HCA Holdings Inc., jumped from $26,Toms Shoes Sale.81 per share to $27.53 as bidders bought several hundred thousand shares before the court made its announcement just after 10 a.m.," The Daily Caller reports.<br /><p><b><span style="color:#F00">Editor's Note:</span> </b></p>"The bidders who snatched up shares before the announcement made a gain of roughly $2 a share once the price rose again after the court officially announced its backing for the law,UK to Cut Afghanistan Troop Numbers in 2013,karen millen uk. The bidding and the price jump came more than 30 minutes before Chief Justice John Roberts read his unexpected decision from the bench."<br /><br />Had the Supreme Court ruling gone the other way, hospital shares would have likely fallen since the healthcare law boosts hospital revenues.<br /><br />HCA Holdings shares particularly jumped.<br /><br />"The law uses government power to funnel patients — including people with new government-provided insurance policies — toward existing hospitals, including HCA’s hospitals. In contrast to HCA, there was little trading — and little movement in the stock price — of other hospital chains before the public announcement," The Daily Caller adds.<br /><br />"The absence of movement in their other companies’ stocks suggest that a few bidders targeted HCA’s stock."<br /><br />While hospital stocks rose,Toms, pharmaceutical stocks fell as did equities in insurance companies after the ruling went public.<br /><br />"This gives us clarity, which is what markets needed," says Todd Schoenberger, managing principal at the Blackbay Group in New York, according to CNBC. <br /><br />"This resolved the uncertainty about healthcare." <br /><br />Still, concerns persists that the fiscal nature of the ruling could weigh on the broader economy.<br /><br />"There seems to be some confusion on the ruling,karen millen. I'm getting word that the mandate is looking like a tax,Toms Shoes Outlet, and if that is the case,Toms Shoes Outlet, that could hurt the economy and that won't help at all. Who knows how this impacts the election,Toms Shoes?" Schoenberger adds.<br /><p><b><span style="color:#F00">Editor's Note:</span> </b></p><br /> <p> ©,Philly’s Black Angel of Death; 2013 Moneynews,denies that the Ecu,Toms Outlet. All rights reserved,karen millen dresses. </p> </div>
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