T. Belman. Bibi is known for holding back the settlement enterprise and not being tough enough on the illegal Arab construction in J&S and on the Bedouin land grab in the Negev. Bennett and Sa’ar are in favour of applying sovereignty in J&S. Bibi did nothing to advance a rightwing agenda. Bennett and Saar will advance the policies of the right with support of his centrist partners then Bibi would have done with the support of Bennett and Sa’ar.
The issue is not that Bennett and Sa’ar have made compromises or abandoned the right, but rather that they have abandoned Netanyahu.
By TOVAH LAZAROFF , JPOST JUNE 5, 2021 22:34
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and then-education minister Naftali Bennett in the Knesset in 2017.
In his apparent final days in office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fallen back on his tactic of fear mongering in a last-minute bid to retain power.
Just before the start of Shabbat, Netanyahu took a swipe at right-wing party heads Naftali Bennett of Yamina and Gideon Sa’ar of New Hope.
“In the coming week’s affair we will read about the spies affair – public representatives in the nation Israel who took out the livelihood of the land and weakened the spirit of the people just out of concern for their personal position,” Netanyahu wrote. ““Also in our generation, in our time, we must stand up [to] those who were elected by the right-wing voices and do the right thing: to create a strong and good right-wing government that will protect the land of Israel, the citizens of Israel and the state.”
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