Obama 'popping champagne corks' if Netanyahu defeated

Benjamin Netanyahu

As Israel heads to nationwide elections, the big question on the minds of the world is: How will the chosen prime minister change the Jewish state's foreign policy?

And according to Fox News analysts, a weaker leader on the foreign policy front will leave not just Israel, but the world, facing grave danger.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, for example, predicted that if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loses his leadership post to opposing front-runner Isaac Herzog – and if the Likud Party falls to the left-wing Zionist Union party – then big changes are in the works.

"No doubt there will be a major change in Israel's foreign policy," he said, during a Tuesday "Fox News" talk about the ongoing elections. Specifically, Bolton pointed to the potential for new leadership to water down resistance to a Palestinian state, and overall dealings with the Palestinians, and to walk back resistance to the emerging America-Iran nuclear deal.

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And that means one major problem: "Iran is on the path inevitably to nuclear weapons," he said.

Bolton also said that "nobody in the Middle East wants Iran to have nuclear weapons," and that countries in that region were watching the elections closely, to determine what steps they might take to prevent a nuclear Tehran if Israel takes a political turn to the left.

His view was echoed by another frequent Fox News guest, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, who recently stepped away from his own cable network show to explore a possible run at the White House in 2016.

On Fox News last evening, Huckabee said that if Netanyahu loses, to expect the "popping of corks of champagne in the White House."

He also warned, as Bolton did, about the uncertainties that such a political switch would bring and predicted "real lamentations" coming from places like Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

Polls going into Tuesday's elections put Netanyahu's Likud Party behind the Zionist Union. But election results alone don't determine who takes the prime minister slot. The Knesset has 120 seats, and polls give the Zionist Union up to 25 seats, versus Likud, 22 seats. But a party needs 60 seats to form a government. And political watchers say Netanyahu is bound to retain a substantial influence in the government, even if Herzog takes the majority of votes during the second stage of Israel's election, after Tuesday's nationwide vote.