Lieberman continues to refuse to sit with certain parties in a coalition
Avigdor Lieberman's keeping on with his political virtue-signaling:
Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman reiterated his opposition on Tuesday to sitting with the ultra-Orthodox and right-wing religious parties, as well as the Arab parties and the Democratic Union.If this is supposed to be some moral equivalence, I'm not amused. Lieberman's just making things more difficult, and it's regrettable some people in the public bought into his farcical efforts to damage the Knesset's ability to operate properly.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that any unity government between his Likud Party and Blue and White needs to include his ultra-Orthodox allies as well as the religious-Zionist Yamina Party.Sure they're not working in synch with Blue & White. And if they do care about security and economy, they wouldn't be remaining in the opposition and undermining the political scene so badly. Based on all this, I'd say it's best if Lieberman remained in the opposition, because he doesn't deserve any government role the way he's behaving.
In comments he made on Facebook Tuesday afternoon, Liberman doubled down on his commitment never to join such a coalition and insisted that the formation of a national unity government including Blue and White, Likud, and possibly his own, was an urgent need due to Israel’s security and economic challenges.
Liberman said he was responding to “spin” and “commentary” published of late regarding the possibility that Yisrael Beytenu might enter a government including the parties it has previously declared to be out of bounds.
He also insisted that his party was not “coordinating” with Blue and White or with Likud, as has been speculated, given his enigmatic decision not to recommend either Blue and White co-chairman Benny Gantz or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form the next government.
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