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Another confrontation broke out between opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu and prime minister Mansour Abbas, when the issue of a coalition connection between the Arab party and the Likud came up again.
The incident began with Netanyahu’s statement during his condolence visit to the families of those killed in the terrorist attack in Bnei Brak last night. “We are under a murderous terrorist attack. They must restore peace and security to the citizens of Israel and to the streets of our cities. It can be done, it must be done – determined action and a very difficult hand is needed,” he said. “Unfortunately we all see that a government that depends on the Islamic movement is not doing this and may not be able to do that, but they must put aside any political consideration and fight terrorism.”
Following his remarks, Abbas turned to Netanyahu and said in an interview with News 12 that “last year at Hashomer Homat we sat together 3 times in Balfour, we negotiated a partnership between the Likud and the PM and a coalition agreement. So we were not an Islamic movement?”
The Likud was quick to respond, claiming that “we have never offered the RAAM to be part of the government, and the simple proof of this is that if we had agreed to it we would have formed a government in 2019 when they offered it to us. A government dependent on the Islamic movement can not really fight terrorism.”
MK Yoav Kish added and reiterated the Likud’s words, claiming that “there is a limit to RAAM’s lies. We never offered them to be partners in the coalition. Even in the 2019 elections the national camp had 60 seats and they offered to join, we refused.”
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