Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was understandably quick to tweet his congratulations to David Cameron, hailing his British counterpart’s electoral success in the early hours of Friday morning, saying he looked forward to working with the Conservative victor in the coming years “on shared goals of peace & prosperity.”

From Netanyahu’s perspective, Cameron’s reelection must have made for sweet viewing — offset only, perhaps, by a rueful sense that the British electoral system, if adopted here, might have made his own political life just a little easier.

As with Netanyahu on March 17, Cameron’s victory made an absolute mockery of the opinion surveys, which had the Conservatives and Labour neck-and-neck, just as the polls here had Likud and Zionist Union neck-and-neck. (Really, pollsters worldwide need to be fundamentally re-evaluating their working methods or contemplating alternative careers.)

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