Knitted News09.07.22 22:45
(Photo: Jonathan Zindel / Flash 90)
MK Yuval Steinitz of the Likud was interviewed by Amit Segal on News 12, for an interview retiring from politics, after his decision not to run in the Likud’s primaries ahead of the 25th Knesset elections.
Steinitz, who was energy minister and in charge of the “gas outline” also made headlines when his wife was elected a Supreme Court justice in the last round of appointments. Interviewer Amit Segal asked him about the deterioration of politics in recent years and Steinitz replied:
“Look, Israeli politics is not in a good position. It has always been hot and turbulent, since the time of Ben-Gurion and Begin. There have also been bad times in the past, but in the last 20 years we thought there was some moderation, and in the last two years we see reverse processes. To say that, for the first time, they worry me about the future of Israeli democracy. “
Everything becomes violent and rude
Steinitz went on to explain: “Everything is getting violent, rude, from all directions, very difficult expressions. Also from the competitors of course.” Asked if the blatant language does not come only from the Likud, he replied: “Obviously. But even when Lapid calls the opposition, us, ‘forces of darkness’, or uses a word I do not want to repeat, or another member of the government, a deputy minister, calls the opposition leader ‘malignant cancer’ “These are very difficult expressions that we did not know before.”
On the picture of Netanyahu with Likud members in the district court at the beginning of his trial, Steinitz said: “I think the location was not successful, so I did not find myself there either. Look, I agree with some of Netanyahu’s criticism of what was done to him, police, in the prosecutor’s office. “However, I do not agree with some of the style of some of my friends, and I said that in real time as well. We are not coming to destroy. There is no democratic state without police, prosecutors, courts and a Supreme Court.”
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