Kushner to meet Netanyahu and Gantz

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1. @ Adam Dalgliesh:I agree Gantz is way too evasive and has no experience in politics to know what the hell he would be for.

   A unity government would not allow him to withdraw from anywhere if that was what he wanted, which to do,which he has never said he would. The most anyone could expect a unity government to would apply Sovereignty to the Blocks and Jordan Valley (that is a big maybe).

   I would like either Nir Barkat or Gideon Saar to become Prime Minister to me they have credibility.

2. @ Bear Klein: However Netanyahu has balked at handing over central Judea and Samaria, including the mountain ridges only a few miles from Tel Aviv and the Sharon Valley, to the PLO. There is considerable “circumstantial evidence,” including a revealing article in the Times of Israel, that Gantz supports the INSS plan, and even had a hand in drafting it, for a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, as a means of enabling the formation of a “contiguous” Palestinian state. It is true that he has been very secretive about his support for the INSS peace plan. But his secretiveness about it is even more troubling than his appeasement-oriented policies. The Prime Minister of Israel is should be someone who is willing to tell the Israeli public what he intends to do, and why. Tight-lipped, uncommunicative Gantz, who prefers to wotk in secret, is not that kind of politician. You have to study his evasive statements very carefully to figure out what he plans to do in office.

   As for Leiberman, he has no credibility on this issue. He is the one who proposed a territorial “swap” with the PLO-PA that would give them an Arab-populated area very near the Mediterranean coast (the so-Called “Little Triangle”) in return for the PLO allowing Israel to retain the major setlement blocs (very generous of them). This was essentially in line with the Obama peace plan. It would have reduced Israel’s ultrarrow “waist” near the Mediteranian from 9 miles to about 3 miles. Lieberman also endorsed the proposal of ex-chief-of-staff Askenazi (now a high-ranking MK for Blue and White, and Gantz’s proposed Minister of Defense) that Israel should build a port for Gaza, at several billion dollars expense, without demanding peace from Hamas in return.

   The anti-Zionist Arab parties have endorsed Gantz, not Netanyahu.

3. Israel would best served by a new Likud Leader either Gideon Saar or Nir Barkat in my view.

   I would prefer a right wing government but that is not feasible at this point in time.

   I would like to see a Coalition of Likud (with a New Leader as the PM), Blue-White, New Right, Labor-Gesher, Shas and Yisreal Betenyu.

   This mix could perhaps be stable (hope) and address some of Israel’s issues and day to day needs. Yes this unity government will not obtain all the right-wing would like to accomplish but is hopefully better than a care-taker government which accomplishes nothing and third election is likely just a waste of money and spread of more ill will among Israelis.

   Israel needs a leader that is not bogged down in keeping his butt out of prison but is soley focused on Israel’s well being. The job is tough enough with talking to lawyer’s half the day about personal legal problems.

   So unless Bibi is cleared of the charges I prefer the Likud replace him with either Saar or Nir Barkat. I like them both! Barkat as Mayor of Jerusalem had some excellent experience. His starting and successfully running is a true credit to him. Also he would be the first Israeli PM who is extremely rich and would not be in need of giving people favors to obtain wealth (i.e. Olmert).

4. @ Adam Dalgliesh:Liberman’s challenge to these charges that seem like a red herring and are not based in fact (in other words desperate lies) are the following:

   Liberman: Netanyahu is desperate

   Yisrael Beytenu chairman fires back after Netanyahu claims he backs minority government with outside support from the Joint List.

   Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman on Friday accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of “desperation”, after Netanyahu claimed Liberman, as well as Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz, are planning to form a minority government with outside support from the Joint List.

   “Apparently, as time is running out, the desperation on Balfour Street is going up. The only logical explanation that comes to my mind is that Netanyahu has decided to return the mandate to the President on Saturday night and at the latest on Sunday,” Liberman wrote on Facebook.

   “To the crux of the matter, the Prime Minister seems to have a selective memory and it is worth reminding him of a few facts:

   1. Netanyahu was the one who handed Hevron to Arafat.

   2. Netanyahu voted for the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif.

   3. Netanyahu was the one who shouted loudly, ‘The Arabs are flocking to the polls’ and the next day he invited them to Balfour and apologized.

   4. Netanyahu is the one who transfers monthly protection payments to the Hamas terror organization.

   5. Netanyahu was the one who collaborated with the Joint List, including Balad, on the law dissolving of the 21st Knesset and on the election of the State Comptroller. Former MK Hajj Yahya spoke in detail on the radio about the cooperation between Netanyahu’s representatives, Miki Zohar and Natan Eshel, and the Joint List.

   6. Netanyahu is the one who prevented the evacuation of Khan Al Ahmar.”

   http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270306

5. Netanyahu: A dangerous government is on the way to Israel
   PM Netanyahu accuses Benny Gantz of planning to form a minority government with outside support from the Joint List.
   Elad Benari, Canada, 18/10/19 20:10

   Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday accused Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz of planning to form a minority government with outside support from the Joint List.

   “The only government that can be formed in light of the election results is a broad national unity government. Without disqualifications, without boycotts, with a genuine partnership between all parties that believe in the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Gantz refuses unity. Gantz, Lapid and Liberman are reluctant to pledge that they will not form a minority government with the support of the members of the Joint List,” Netanyahu wrote in a post on Facebook.

   “The leaders and prominent members of the Joint List repeatedly expressed support for terrorism, admiration for terrorists, and refused to condemn harm to Israeli soldiers and civilians,” he continued.

   “Ahmed Tibi, one of the leaders of the Joint List, was Yasser Arafat’s former adviser. He refuses to see Hamas as a terrorist organization, justified the kidnapping of IDF soldiers by Hezbollah, and in a speech at a PA conference he expressed admiration for the ‘shaheeds.’”

   “Ayman Odeh, chairman of the Joint List, sees himself as part of the Palestinian national resistance against Israel and refuses to condemn the harming of IDF soldiers. Under his leadership, his Hadash party issued a firm condemnation of the declaration of the Gulf states and the Arab League that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization.”

   “Tibi and Odeh are prominent members of the Joint List, but alongside them there are even more extreme Knesset members. For example, Knesset member Heba Yazbak expressed sympathy for the abominable murderer Samir Kuntar who smashed the head of 4-year-old Einat Haran.”

   “MK Ofer Shelah of Blue and White said already this week that ‘nothing is invalid’ in order to form a government. In the coming days, the left and the media will make an effort to legalize this dangerous and anti-Zionist step. A step that will tie the hands of the IDF and the government and turn us all into prisoners in the hands of extremist Knesset members who identify themselves and consider themselves part of the fight against Israel,” warned Netanyahu.

   “How will the State of Israel be able to act against the terrorist organizations, with its government dependent on the voices of Tibi, Odeh and Yazbak? How can the State of Israel act against Iran and Hezbollah, when Knesset members and supporters of Hezbollah can overthrow the government? Establishing a minority government that relies on the Joint List is an anti-Zionist step that would jeopardize our security;/blockquote

   This quotation is from today Arutz Sheva.t I believe that Bibi is 100% right here. A Gantz government, l rely of Gantz’;s alliance with supporters of Hamas and Fatah, people who are ideological enemies of Israel and want to replace it with an Arab to stay in office. This is a mortal threat to Israel.

   Yes, of course Israel&s Arab citizens deserve to be represented in Israel's government. But only when they put aside their hostility to Zionism and recognize Israel as a legitimate and Jewish state, and the national home of the Jewish people. These three Arab parties have failed to do this. They are still committed to the anti-Israel , antsemitc view that, as one Arab MK put it, “we were here before you, and we will be here after you have gone.”People with those kind of views should not be in the Israel government or have any input on its policies.