Why is he doing so poorly? As noted, it’s certainly domestic politics — the Israelis have been living with an existential threat since the nation was founded.
[Early afternoon update]
I wish you guys could read Hebrew.. The butthurt from slanted Israeli journalists tweeting is so strong, it's gorgeous. Aww poor babies.
Hmmmm, not sure why I can’t properly embed that tweet, but here it is. he thinks the debate didn’t go well for the opposition, but we’ll see.
On an unrelated note, Iran is apparently giving substantial support to Iraq in its fight with ISIS.
Iran also has allegedly trained about 20,000 troops for Shi’ite militia. Well, it’ll be interesting to see if there’s anything to recover from Iraq by the time January, 2017 comes around.