T. Belman. The true col0urs of Likud and Netanyahu are on display for Israelis to see if they had any doubt up to now. They don’t want to fight for sovereignty, they want a TSS but not right now. Only Smotrich and Ben Gvir are fighting for Jews who want to extend sovereignty. They are our only hope. It is now or never.
Otzma Yehudit announces that coalition negotiations have been stopped after Likud refused to give it the Ministry for the Development of the Negev and the Galilee.
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The Otzma Yehudit Party announced on Sunday evening that the coalition talks with the Likud have been terminated.
“Contrary to the earlier agreement, the Likud retracted and now refuses to give the additional minister – for the Development of the Periphery, the Negev and the Galilee – to Otzma Yehudit,” senior party officials said.
“Strengthening the Negev, the Galilee and the periphery is our election promise, and we were elected to fulfill the election promises, not to look for jobs, but to take care of the residents of Be’er Sheva, Netivot, Ashkelon, and Sderot as well as the periphery of the Galilee – this is in our hearts,” they added.
Earlier on Sunday evening, Channel 13 News reported that the Religious Zionist Party is demanding that the Likud include in the coalition agreement a provision for promoting Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.
According to the report, the Religious Zionist Party is conditioning its support for a future government led by Benjamin Netanyahu in part on the Likud’s willingness to include a clause in the coalition agreement obligating the new government to take steps to apply Israeli sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria.
The Likud, however, is reportedly refusing to commit to any steps towards applying sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria in the next government, leaving the two sides deadlocked.
Meanwhile, Religious Zionist party chairman MK Bezalel Smotrich took to Twitter to respond to users who have attacked him in an attempt to cause him to back down from his demands.
“People can’t make us the enemy, incite against, and slander us every time we don’t stand at attention to the Likud’s demands. Religious Zionism is a partner of the nationalist camp and the Likud,” wrote Smotrich.
“We will keep to our demands so we can ensure the quick formation of a good and sturdy government that will do good and lead a truly right-wing policy,” he added.
Promise everything and get out of it later.
They did it to show how the intransigents are undermining all those wonderful things the coalition is demanding by endangering the formation of the government.
United Torah Judaism announces it has frozen coalition negotiations, accusing the Likud of unfair distribution of ministerial portfolios.
Otzma Yehudit holding out for Negev & Galilee, Jerusalem portfolios
@Edgar
Quite true. I suspect this is closely related to the tight association between the US and Israeli militaries, where the Israeli military leaders are manipulated into believing that their ultimate salvation lies with the support and supplication to the will of the US. In fact, this is far from an accurate perception for any national leader to adopt. Smotrich has the potential of providing the Defense ministry a welcome reform with the reallocation of Israel’s national and security interests above those of all others, which should not be a controversial position to take in an independent and sovereign nation.
@peloni
Maybe everything is much simpler than we think?
What if Netanyahu keeps producing one election after another to avoid the court proceedings?
@peloni
Well, it seems that it is more important to Netanyahu to keep his honor clean as a true TSSer come what may!
To me, it is really disturbing that he doesn’t wish for the Jews to even develop the Periphery within the Green Line!
@PELONI
It could be that he would replace Otzma and Smotrich with Gantz. He seems lukewarm on YESHA since he had a lot of time to do something good there and dragged his feet.. So Gantz’s anti-Israel policies for YESHA wouldn’t worry him. How the rest of LIKUD would take it is debatable.
Smotrich seems an unlikely Defence Minister but military DMs have almost uniformly been bad for Israel. For instance the terrorists should have been stamped out long ago. Containment in a remarkably long term issue like this never works out well. And as we see today, the “net” has many large holes. A decisive strike is needed ASAP. The terrorists roam around freely.
And a comparatively minor thing. Nobody has ever bothered to find out how the terrorists accumulate all the missiles they stockpile on the Mount.
And this would be the easiest thing to put a stop to.
I’ve always had sympathy and understanding for Baruch Goldstein, his very best friend had been murdered only that same day.reportedly died in his arms. ,He killed only a meagre 30. A demented suicide bomber did “better”.
This outrage does not make a bit of sense. If we are to believe that Bibi would seriously prefer new elections over the formation of a Right wing govt, we would have to accept many things.
In the new elections, the Right would be fractured and the Left would likely present a solidified front. If the Right won again (unlikely), we would be in no better a position to form a govt, whether Bibi had a larger (unlikely) or smaller division of the mandates. There is also a strong likelihood that the Likud and Bibi would suffer significantly in a new election which was only called due to Bibi’s refusal to form a govt with his own block despite having the votes to do so. If the Left came to power, Bibi’s role in the Right would be even more severely diminished, and it would be likely that neither he nor the Likud would recover from having so clearly betrayed their voters – recall the fate of Yamina. Lastly, if neither the Right nor the Left could form a govt, the Left would require Bibi’s replacement in order to form a non-functional, paralyzed broad unity govt. Consequently, if Bibi were to persist in refusing the demands of his own block members, it would have the very likely outcome of fracturing the Right, destroying Likud’s dominance and ending Bibi’s own political career on a distinctly scandalous note. Yet Bibi is still intent upon charting this course?
Well, it would appear that this is exactly what he intends to do. And in the meantime, Bibi will be supporting the continuation of maintaining Lapid and Gantz in power to work their will which stands in sharp contrast to the will of the country, surrendering more Jewish lands to the illegal settlements by the Arabs. As I said, none of this makes a bit of sense.
Of course, if Bibi has already struck a Bennett shaped deal with the Left, it might make some sense for him, but not for Likud. This was likely be the last of Bibi’s elections, even without this betrayal of his supporters, but the Likud members are not in the same age bracket as is Bibi, and yet supporting Bibi in this act of political suicide will mean the end of the political careers of most if not all of the current Likud members as well. So even given the most unlikely event that Bibi would lead/join a Left-Arab, the decision to betray his partners, his block and his voters, still does not make a bit of sense.