The chairman of Ra’am is angry with Bennett’s conduct regarding Ra’am’s demands vis-à-vis the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Ra’am chairman Mansour Abbas has cut off contact with the leaders of the coalition. Kan 11 News reported on Sunday that Abbas is furious at the conduct of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his coalition partners regarding Ra’am’s demands vis-à-vis the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and has not been answering their telephone calls.
On Saturday, Abbas sought to coordinate with the King of Jordan the moves on the Temple Mount. According to a senior member of the coalition, the crisis with Ra’am is serious and close to being irreversible.
On Sunday night, Bennett convened the leaders of the parties and factions without Abbas in attendance. At the meeting, it was agreed that MK Boaz Toporovsky (Yesh Atid) will serve as the acting chairman of the coalition until a permanent replacement is appointed.
Bennett said during the meeting, “We have a national responsibility and we are committed to continuing to maintain this government. It would be irresponsible to deteriorate the State of Israel into elections and chaos at this time. The continued existence of the government depends on each and every one of us and together we can succeed.”
On Saturday night, Abbas said that his party’s position in the coalition regarding the Al-Aqsa Mosque would be made in accordance with the results of an upcoming Jordanian-Israeli international summit.
In an Arabic-language Facebook post, Abbas wrote, “I have informed the Prime Minister and the Alternate Prime Minister that this clear and decisive position has changed after I met with the King of Jordan. The demands and positions regarding the Al-Aqsa Mosque will be accepted and conducted by the King of Jordan, Abdullah II, who is the sponsor of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Holy Places in Jerusalem. The permanent solution is to end the occupation and establish a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, with its capital in Jerusalem, in the heart of which is the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
Bennett responded
Meanwhile, at the beginning of the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett rejected the demand of the King of Jordan and Ra’am chairman Mansour Abbas to change the arrangements for Jews to enter the Temple Mount and to expand the role of the Waqf at the site.
Bennett said: “I want to make it clear here that there is, and will not be, any political consideration regarding the war on terror. And of course – all decisions regarding the Temple Mount and Jerusalem will be made by the Israeli government, which is sovereign in the city, without regard to foreign considerations. We certainly reject any foreign intervention in the decisions of the Israeli government.”
Edgar Pollyana wanna cracker? Aaaackkk.
Sebastian
This messes everything up. It tends to confusion.
These countries can and should aid Israel at least that should be the PRESUMPTION.
But Israel must stand in every issue on political principles.
And immediately and urgently defend Russia as does John Meirsheimer.
You seem to not work from principle.
@SEBASTIEN-
So now you’ve given me a new name….Pollyanna……!!
@Edgar
Who the dickens is Glen Mervyn Eilon…”If I am not myself, who am I …??”
I am Edgar G. THAT’S who I am. Lately I seem to be having all sorts of unknown names bestowed on my unworthy shoulders. It happens periodically also.
@Sebastien Zorn
Netanyahu is no longer in power as Prime Minister but he is still in charge of the Likud party and he leads the opposition as far as I know?
Maybe I missed something in which case I apologize.
Maybe he no longer wants to destroy the government.
I don’t recall which Americans he is constantly on the phone with.
@Reader Netanyahu is ruining the country? He is out of power. Biden hates Netantahu. What Americans is he on the phone with? If it’s military people, that’s a good thing. America is an allly albeit an ambivalent one. Russia and China are not.
@Sebastien Zorn
Maybe if a country has 5 elections in 2 years the population gets kind of fed up with the process, and I suspect that the elections are much “livelier” there given the ME temperament.
P.S.
I really think Netanyahu is ruining the country at this point.
He said recently that he is on the phone with the Americans almost daily (i.e., they want him, I presume – to me it is not a good sign).
https://tass.com/world/1446727
The Fakestinians of every faction think both the Putin and Biden regimes are in their corner while Israel’s government is divided almost to the point of paralysis. “When the cat’s away, the mice [rats] will play.” .Missiles, riots, terror. Are they wrong?
I still don’t understand why Israelis seem to associate elections with chaos and regard them with such dread.
The arguments I have heard are that everybody takes a day off and they cost the government and businesses money. They seems like weak arguments.
Netanyahu said that polling indicates the right would have well over 61 in an election but the announcement by Abbas that Raam would abstain from the no confidence vote Wednesday could be a trick because if he jumps back in at the last minute and the vote fails, it can’t be brought up again for 6 months!