Bennett told private meeting of West Bank party activists how he made Netanyahu reverse talk of unilateral moves;
BY STUART WINER AND TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF November 23, 2015,
Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett claimed he forced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to backtrack on recent comments he made of possible Israeli unilateral pullouts in the West Bank by giving the prime minister a verbal “bullet between the eyes,” Army Radio reported on Monday.
Bennett allegedly made the statement during a private meeting last week with Jewish Home party activists from West Bank settlements. The education minister’s remark prompted fellow party member Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel, sitting alongside him, to caution him to be careful in his choice of language.
“Abroad Bibi talked about unilateral moves; he went back on it after I put a bullet between his eyes,” Bennett reportedly said.
Bennett said. “There will be no unilateral moves as long as I am in the government. I have no intention to be nice when we are talking about a danger to the citizens of Israel.”
Other details of the private meeting first came to light last week, when Army Radio reported that Bennett told the audience “anyone who thinks we are sitting in a right-wing government is mistaken.”
Earlier this month, Netanyahu walked backed a comment he made a day after suggesting that an Israeli unilateral pullout from the West Bank was possible under the right conditions if it had the international community’s backing and fully satisfied Israel’s security concerns.
“The prime minister didn’t speak of a unilateral withdrawal but of the possibility of unilateral steps, specifically those that would strengthen Israel’s security and diplomatic interests in the face of terror,” Netanyahu’s Likud party said in a Hebrew-language statement to the press, some 12 hours after Netanyahu made his remarks during an event at a progressive Washington think tank, the Center for American Progress.
Netanyahu also tweeted a condensed, first-person version of the statement, that apparently referred to the 2005 Gaza Strip pullout and concluded: “I have no intention of evacuating or uprooting towns. That mistake won’t recur.”
that is because outside of the major settlement blocks that “everyone knows Israel will keep” his intention is to leave the settlers with the option to stay under pal rule or leave voluntarily…. His statement does not imply that he will not withdraw. My view is that if the long time period of 5-10 years of the army staying after agreement is made that over time the Israeli gov will offer financial incentives to those who remain, perhaps this time with newly built units waiting somewhere east of green line for them. It will all be voluntary, so “no forced evictions” will be a true statement… but not no withdrawal.
Compared to his contemporaries, Netanyahu prevails. It is relative and SHmuel’s points are not to be ignored, no not at all, the system itself needs to be overhauled. Prefer PM Olmert, Peretz, Barak, ShitStreet, Herzog, Livni, Ben Ami, Lapid, get over it and change the system, annex the land and build. It is impossible to know what Netanyahu is lying about at any given moment so much for bullet between the eyes, an expression, which is hateful and inappropriate, making Bennet appear as a self serving piece of dung.
@ dove:
I do hope that our G.d will look after all of us. Otherwise we are in deep trouble. How to get in better shape with G.d? I am not a Rabbi but I sense that we must follow His Laws to warrant His better allocation of interest.
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
Until that happens since you claim to be a religious man how can we get Hashem to play a more active role? Certainly Hashem can’t approve of letting Israel run amuck with such godless filth!!
The mime minister is plainly a people user and extremely dangerous to all that is Jewish. He is neither rightist or leftist, Netanyahu is a Netanyahuist. Will “unite” with anyone to secure his chair.
His salami slicing style of removing Jews from the Jewish Holiest of Sites, Temple Mount, are a classic to his name.
His pretend enhanced altitude dealing with “terrorism” is transparent on its worthlessness. I would not doubt it in the least that him and his “judiciary” will detain all of those that took out terrorists. Netanyahu will do it after he surrenders to Abbas / Kerry.
Neither I doubt that he will “gesticulate” and release more Islamic murderers from jail.
True. It is great to see field operatives on their own terminating the small cogs doing the terror acts, but those murderous islamic creeps are strategically irrelevant.
Don Netanyahu and his minister of defense… as well as others in his circle do not do a thing against the Islamic terror leads.
The act of temporarily removing the legality of the Northern Islamic Movement is just window dressing.
They are running circles in the North virtually
unaffected. And almost surely the supreme courtiers will not accept the dis legalization.
NEW LEADERSHIP NOW!