‘We saw cracks in the gov’t when there was talk of Netanyahu leaving politics,’ former Justice Min. Haim Ramon says.
.01.22
Former Justice Minister Haim Ramon is convinced that if former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resigns from politics, the current government will be no more.
Speaking to Galei Israel Radio, Ramon said, “I understand things simply as they are. The current negotiations for a plea bargain have failed. Each one has gone back to his original position. I assume [Attorney General Avichai] Mandelblit will say that he never compromised on bribery and Case 2000, and Netanyahu will say that he never agreed to admit to moral turpitude.”
“The sigh of relief from [Prime Minister Naftali] Bennett and [Foreign Minister Yair] Lapid (Yesh Atid) was heard throughout the Sharon region and Tel Aviv. So long as Benjamin Netanyahu is on the political playing field, that’s one of the things supporting the government most, it’s the government’s glue. Netanyahu supports them by his very presence.
“The fact that news about his political disappearance for a certain period at least turned out to be nothing offers support for the government. We were able to see what happened if when the news of his disappearance from political life was at its peak. We saw cracks in the government.”
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Ramon emphasized that he supports Netanyahu signing a plea bargain, even if it includes public service.
“A plea bargain of the type offered Netanyahu – if I was advising him, I would tell him to go for it, even if it comes with half a year of prison that is swapped out for public service,” he said.
“Netanyahu would do well to announce that he is retiring from leadership of the Likud. That undermines the government, regardless of whether there is a plea bargain or not. That is the correct thing for him to do politically, to take a break, to allow someone else from the Likud to be a candidate for prime minister. I am convinced that within three months the Bennett-Lapid government will disappear from the world.”
@FelixQuigley
Yes, please tell me why would enemies of the Jews seek to destroy someone who gave away Hebron to the Arabs, who voted for the disengagement from Gaza, and who supports the two-state Final Solution.
Reader all true but that was not why enemies of Jews sought and seek to destroy him. You seem to miss that. In a strange way your intervention is forming an alliance with those forces. That’s sad.
@FelixQuigley
1) wrote a letter to Arafat a couple of weeks after his father (a staunch Zionist) died;
2) gave away Hebron to the Arabs;
3) publicly accepted a “Palestinian” state;
4) supported the two-state Final Solution since at least 2013;
5) voted for the “disengagement” from Gaza, and then, after his vote was counted, quit the government “to protest” the disengagement;
6) was ready to sign The Deal of the Century which would result in an Arab state in Gaza and 70% of Judea and Samaria connected with a tunnel which would cut Israel in half East to West;
7) presented a misleading map of Israel’s sovereignty over 30% of Judea and Samaria.
Do you still think these are actions of a “patriotic man”?
Hareidi parties are not right-wing, they enabled Oslo-2 by abstaining from voting, and their favorite politician was Shimon Peres.
So you and the people you support have managed to remove this patriotic man one way or another, and you imagine this will work out well. There is a thing in life, and in politics tied to life, which is principle. So this will never be for the good of Jews – what you have done.
No one can be in Bibi shoes!
The government could disappear if Bibi leaves and the current Knesset reorganizes under an all right-wing Haredi Government which includesL
Likud
Yamina
Saar
Haredi Parties
and who else?? Not Lapid, not Lieberman, maybe Gantz (Blue-White)
Bibi still could leave in a Plea Deal after the new Attorney General is appointed.
It is now floating out there that Bibi stepped away from a plea deal because one could not get done anyway, while the current AG is still in office. So he pulled away from a deal as a matter of showmanship or negotiating tactics.
Other scenario possible is that new Elections are called and a right-wing government is formed that way.