Three laws on military and security affairs were not passed or were not promoted due to opposition from the RAAM faction, as we first revealed last Friday. To coalition discipline.
“Arab MKs have never participated in votes on security laws, and if there is anyone today who is delaying – it is the Likud,” Taha claimed in an interview yesterday (Saturday evening) here 11. “If the Likud uses a political situation so as not to pass it then Gantz will come in contact with them . The Arab Knesset members never participated in the votes on security-related laws and they were demonstrably absent from it because they did not want to participate. Now the point is that the Likud is using this to make it difficult for the coalition. “
However, after being pressured to commit to coalition discipline while the Likud is not committed to it, he added that “when it comes we will sit down, discuss and decide.”
MK Simcha Rotman (Religious Zionism) said in response that “when we opposed the formation of a government relying on the RAAM, we explained that there is no such thing as ‘outside support’. “Imagine. Thank you to Bennett, Shaked, Assault, Elkin, Hauser, Intelligence, Orbach, Kalfon, Handel, Silman. Thank you. It would not have happened without you.”
As mentioned, Defense Minister Bnei Gantz has been trying for several months to pass laws and regulations in the Knesset on military and security matters, but each time he has had to withdraw them in the face of the expected opposition of RAAM members. He intends to oppose this legislation, and in view of the refusal of the right-wing factions in the opposition to support Ganz’s move, thus allowing him to circumvent the opposition of the RAAM.