Knitted News07.04.22 18:38 Friday in Nissan Tishpev
(Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman Danny Shem Tov)
Deputy Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Yair Lapid reacts for the first time to the retirement of coalition chairman Idit Silman: “Extremism will not defeat the State of Israel.”
“Ten months ago we proved that it is possible otherwise. The great achievement was not that we formed a government that no one believed we could form. It was the moment when the State of Israel discovered that people with different views – right, center and left – want and can gather around a common good. Ours: that we can live here together.
“Not a simple coalition crisis”
Lapid does not spare an opportunity to attack his political rivals: “Extremism will not defeat the State of Israel. Ben Gvir and Smutrich will not take our country from us by force of arms, corruption will not defeat sanity and clean hands. Whoever tries to separate us, make us hate and be angry with each other , Will always lose in the end.
Lapid attacks: “Extremism will not defeat the State of Israel” (Photo: Yonatan Zindel / Flash 90)
“These days we are dealing with a not-so-simple coalition crisis. It is not the first and probably not the last. I have spoken to all party leaders more than once in the last two days, and they are all mobilized so that we can get through it without further shocks. In order not to degenerate the country into further, toxic and divisive elections.
Everything is being done to continue the economic growth and political boom of recent months. We are determined to prove that a large majority of Israelis are not willing to hate each other. True Israeli patriots do not drag their country to extremism and violence. They do not want to get rid of someone who thinks differently from them, but to find ways to live with it. “Our government represents the idea that is impossible without it: that our right to exist is only together.”
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