2015-01-28 ISRAEL: Growing concerns that Netanyahu is escalating violence in the north toward election day

2015-01-28 ISRAEL: Growing concerns that Netanyahu is escalating violence in the north toward election day
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Retired generals, politicians, journalists are in agreement: Netanyahu is manufacturing and escalating hostilities in the Syrian and Lebanese borders for electoral purposes... 
Netanyahu is facing election that otherwise would focus on the socio-economic divide, created during his years in office. Additionally he is facing his record of this past summer's Gaza massacre, seen by most Israelis as far from brilliant.
Finally, his recent maneuver - an attempt to run an election speech from the US Congress - has backfired with snubs from the White House, the US Congress, and even from Fox news...
"We have bitter experience with military escalations on the eve of elections," MK Gal-On wrote on her Facebook page. "The Israeli government must not act impulsively as it has in the past."
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