’Israel’s’ Likud: Vote for Left Will Benefit ’ISIL’

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"Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party claims in a contentious new campaign ad that a vote for the left in "Israel's" March election would benefit extremists from the "ISIL" group.

The ad drew fire from the left-wing coalition opposing Likud, the Zionist Union, which accused Netanyahu of "colossal" security failures.

The truck pulls up next to a car driven by an "Israeli" and one of the "ISIL" militants asks: "Which way to "Jerusalem" brother?"
"Take the left," the driver answers and the pick-up drives off, one of the actors firing an automatic rifle into the air.

Two slogans appear on the screen: "The left will give in to terrorism" and "It's us or them, there is only Likud, only Netanyahu."

The Zionist Union, formed in December as an electoral alliance of "Israel's" Labor Party and the center-left Hatnuah, denounced the ad and "the colossal failure of Benjamin Netanyahu in the field of security".

"He freed terrorists with blood on their hands and strengthened Hamas, and during his tenure Iran became a state that has reached the nuclear threshold," it said in a statement.

Security will be a key issue in "Israel's" March 17 general election, which was called early after the collapse of Netanyahu's ruling coalition.
Recent polls have shown a tight race between Likud and the Zionist Union but many voters remain undecided.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team