At the beginning of the Yesh Atid faction meeting, Chairman Lapid was asked about the difference between coalition demands of the ultra-Orthodox, which are categorized as “blackmail” versus last night’s demands of the Arab representatives. “Even today We’ll talk to him and try to help. “
At the weekly commemoration meeting today (Monday), Deputy Prime Minister Yair Lapid was asked about the difference between the ultra-Orthodox demands he called “blackmail” and the demands of RAAM, the joint list and MK Rinway Zoabi, whom he calls legitimate demands.
At first, Lapid said that if he had made legitimate demands on the ultra-Orthodox, he would have acted in their favor: “Even today, if MK Gafni enters my office and brings real public needs to the ultra-Orthodox public, we will sit down, talk to him and try to help.” “We’ll do it with everyone.”
Lapid was then asked whether, following the change in his position, using coalition funds for political survival, he would stop attacking the ultra-Orthodox whom he had previously called blackmailers. Lapid replied: “I will not use the term ultra-Orthodox blackmail when there are demands that are legitimate in dealing with the needs of the ultra-Orthodox public, and I will also use it to be extortionate political demands.”
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If Zoabi and Abbas were Gafni, the hypocrisy of the left shouts
As you may recall, yesterday MK Moshe Gafni presented a mirror to the government and presented the hypocrisy, when he raised a situation where the prime minister is Benjamin Netanyahu at the head of the ultra-Orthodox right-wing government: “Prime Minister Netanyahu calls me and asks to meet. At the meeting, I demand NIS 1 billion to reduce gaps in ultra-Orthodox society, and another NIS 200 million for one of the ultra-Orthodox local authorities.”
Gafni guessed the cries that were heard in the media and in the Knesset, “What a cry would have arisen,” he said. “Shit would issue a serious indictment, and the courts would convene for urgent hearings on the matter.”