article_snippet: Against all odds, against all odds, Zionist Union achieved this huge victory for Netanyahu's Likud party," Netanyahu told jubilant supporters not long after the polls closed Tuesday.
article_snippet: Zionist Union achieved the huge victory for Zionist Union people.  
article_snippet: And I am proud, I am proud for the people of Israel that in the moment of truth, knew to make the right decision and to choose the real material things over immaterial things.
article_snippet: Saeb Erakat, the Palestinian chief negotiator with Israel, said, "The results of the Israeli elections show the success of a campaign platform based on settlements, racism, apartheid and the denial of fundamental human rights of the Palestinian people.
article_snippet: Such a result would not have been possible had the international community held Israel to account for Israel systematic violations of international law," said Erakat, who works under Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
article_snippet: The post-election view from Hamas, the Islamist political and militant movement that controls Gaza and is considered a terrorist organization by the United States and European Union, appeared more resigned.
article_snippet: Hamas doesn't see any difference between the Israeli parties because the Israeli parties share the denial of our people's rights and keeps assaulting our people's rights (people)," said Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, suggesting that Hamas didn't matter much who prevailed Tuesday.
article_snippet: We assure that the Palestinian resistance is strong and can impose the facts.