Posted on 12/03/2014 5:33:38 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Deputy Minister Tzipi Hotovely spoke with Arutz Sheva Wednesday evening about her efforts to forge a united right-wing bloc to run in next March's general elections - and said the Israeli electorate should be focusing on the policies of candidates, not their personalities.
"The time has come to stop dealing all the time with the personal side but rather with the (policy) direction."
"We saw how a leader got here, from Yesh Atid, who sold hollow slogans to the public," she said of Yair Lapid, who was fired yesterday by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu prior to the PM's announcement of new elections.
Hotovely noted that the electorate granted Lapid "considerable strength" with a full 19 seats "without checking what stood behind the man."
She also took aim at Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, formerly a close ally of the prime minister whose party ran on a joint list with Likud in 2012 - but which now seems to be taking a markedly different path.
Noting the recent "peace plan" drawn up by Liberman's party, which would see large swathes of land ceded to the Palestinian Authority, Hotovely said: "Liberman also has to choose if he is for splitting the land or not."
"One day he is on the Right and the next he is on the Left," she added, saying that only once Liberman chooses a consistent position would Likud be able to consider including Yisrael Beytenu in any potential united right-wing bloc.
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What’s your honest take (even this far out) on how you think the elections will turn out??
Bibi will remain PM. Avigdor will morph into his pet leftist and do his dirty work for him (Ehud and Tzipi were before him). There will be a big rightist coalition and some Chareidim in the government, but Avigdor will be the leftist whose job it will be to frustrate the right at every turn. This is how Bibi does business.
They are all leftwing by US standards, their big differences seem to be on Palestinians and stuff
Sounds like Bibi has learned well from John Boehner, and Mitch McConnell.
Basically, yes. It’s all an act. Must do Jacko parody later.
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