Tag: Blue and White

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, …let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds."

According to some media outlets in Israel, the Lapid camp is ready to offer Bennett a rotation deal, according to which he would serve as prime minister for the first year.

Meanwhile, it's expected that if Nissenkorn does not hurry up and announce his resignation from the post of Justice Minister, Gantz will do it for him today.

In an interview with Sharq Al-Awsat, Gantz said he is willing to compromise on parts of Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley, he opposes sovereignty and is against legalizing new settlements, while echoing the peace sentiments of the good old Oslo years.

As a tragic consequence of the coming dispersal, all the extra-budget, one-time corona-related grants to Israeli citizens will be canceled.

Liberman offered a strategic platform which he believes all four parties can agree on – which remains to be seen.

“The public is in desperate need of reform and financial aid” regardless of politics, says Finance Minister Israel Katz • Coalition deal sets Aug. 15 deadline for the passing of a biennial budget.

Bibi has to be an idiot not to try to kill this government, and Mother Netanyahu did not raise idiots.

Reactions pour in from across political spectrum after landmark High Court ruling in favor of coalition deal • Former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked: “Even the obvious must be stated: This isn’t law, it’s politics

Yes, this new government is definitely a platypus – an egg laying mammal, with a duck's bill to boot.

“We are not changing the system of government in Israel."

As soon as the 61-MKs' recommendation is sent to the president, there will be a stampede of all the many parties, interest groups and NGOs to the High Court of Justice.

Gantz is trying to hard to push a very left wing government onto Bibi, and it may backfire on him.

Netanyahu told his rightwing partners not to believe the media reports about the portfolio distributions to Blue&White... they don't believe him.

Yair Lapid will be the head of the opposition.

For Blue&White, running the country is secondary to getting rid of Netanyahu.

The Joint Arab List sees itself as naturally entitled to what has to be the most vital Knesset committee, bar none, because they are the third largest faction in the Knesset.

The only way Blue&White can form a government is to rely on the anti-Zionist Arab party.

Like the proverbial Lion in Winter, near the end of his illustrious career Netanyahu is surrounded by scores of his vengeful enemies.

Meanwhile, the Joint Arab List has yet to receive the phone call from Benny Gantz inviting them to talk.

Several polls published in the last 24 hours project that Likud is in the lead with 35 seats, and Blue and White is right behind with 34 seats.

We have so much to do, so much to fix, in the struggle over violence, over discrimination, over equality."

"Let the people choose who will lead them. Let the people decide, and no one else -- not the media, either."

Likud says that Yair Lapid is behind the failure to form a unity government.

“We will not sit in a government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, unless a court acquits him of the serious charges against him."

“In Blue and White, they said they were not prepared for Netanyahu to be prime minister after [Benny] Gantz.”

“Third elections are a bad thing, but basic principles and values ​​cannot be dispensed with," Gantz tweeted, suggesting his values were superior to those of the Haredim and religious-Zionists.

Netanyahu underscored that Arabs can be Zionists and support the State of Israel, but the Joint List MKs are not Zionists and do not support the State of Israel.

The unnatural alliance between Gantz and Lapid is what is preventing the formation of a government and may bring about new elections.

If Netanyahu comes in with 55 seats, he shouldn't really have to offer a rotation at the helm, seeing as Gantz only has 44 backers.