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Yishai: Bennett Abandoned Settlement With Lapid Pact
Mar 3rd, 2013
Daily NewsINN
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Interior Minister Eli Yishai (Shas) on Saturday night accused Bayit Yehudi chairman MK Naftali Bennett of abandoning the Jewish settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria by forming an alliance with the Yesh Atid party headed by Yair Lapid.

Yishai’s comments came after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was granted a two week extension by President Shimon Peres to form a coalition. Netanyahu, in a veiled reference to Bayit Yehudi, said that the reason he has not yet succeeded in forming a coalition is “that there are boycotts,” referring to the fact that Yesh Atid (and by extension, Bayit Yehudi, because of the pact) is refusing to join a coalition with the hareidi-religious parties.

“Lapid's hatred towards us is stronger than Bennett’s love for the various parts of the Land of Israel and his concern for settlement, otherwise he would know that the price for his alliance for Lapid will be a high price for the residents of Judea and Samaria,” Yishai wrote on his Facebook page.

“The partnership between the two will hurt the camp which raises the banner that says that there will not be another disengagement, the camp that understands that security comes before peace,” added Yishai. “Bennett may win the battle but he will lose the war. Bayit Yehudi has sold their souls - their main flag - the future of the settlement enterprise. The coming days will determine the final composition of the government without the hareidim and what will be determined that same day is also the future of the settlement enterprise. Bennett sacrificed the future of the settlement on the altar of the hatred towards hareidim.”

Bayit Yehudi and Yesh Atid have made a pact, agreeing to enter the coalition together or not at all, so they can guarantee a coalition ally with similar goals.

Lapid insists on implementing a strict program to enlist hareidi-religious yeshiva students into the army, making it nearly impossible for Netanyahu to form a coalition with Yesh Atid, Bayit Yehudi and the hareidi parties.

Bayit Yehudi, while agreeing with Lapid’s intention to enlist hareidi-religious yeshiva students into the army, has never said it would refuse to sit in a coalition with the hareidim and indicated that it would be willing to negotiate with them on this issue, despite claims otherwise by Likud negotiators.

MK Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi) said Saturday that the alliance between her party and Yesh Atid is rock solid.

"The situation at this moment is that we are going into a government with Yesh Atid," MK Shaked told Channel 10. She added that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had missed the boat for getting Bayit Yehudi to join his coalition independently of Yesh Atid.

"If the prime minister had turned to us immediately after the elections, we would have gone in," she said.

Despite the mutual allegations between the parties, reports Saturday night indicated that Netanyahu and Bennett will meet on Sunday in an attempt to advance the coalition negotiations.

Netanyahu to Try Again to Build Coalition W/ Shas, Bayit Yehudi
Mar 3rd, 2013
Daily NewsINN - Chana Ya'ar
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has two weeks left to build a coalition – and a roadblock between the hareidi-religious parties and the centrist bloc with whom he needs to make an agreement.

The prime minister was formally granted a two-week extension by President Shimon Peres on Saturday night to form a coalition, after failing to accomplish the task in the first four weeks following elections.

After referring to “boycotts” being carried out by the centrist Yesh Atid (There's a Future) - Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) mini-coalition against the United Torah Judaism (UTJ) - Shas bloc, Netanyahu will once again try to break the log jam Sunday afternoon after the regular Sunday cabinet meeting.

Netanyahu has strongly criticized Bayit Yehudi for its unwillingness to negotiate separately from Yesh Atid, and both for their unwillingness to sit together with the hareidi-religious parties in a coalition government.

MK Uri Ariel (Bayit Yehudi) responded to the criticism, demanding an explanation for Netanyahu’s pact with former Opposition leader MK Tzipi Livni, head of the six-seat Hatnuah party, and pointing out that was “even more peculiar.” The Likud has only managed to build a pact with Livni -- a former adversary -- to date.

Bennett, meanwhile, commented that Netanyahu had “boycotted” his party immediately following the Knesset elections, causing a significant part of the problems in the first place. “In the days following the elections, the Likud refused to speak with Bayit Yehudi,” Bennett wrote in a post on his Facebook page. “They boycotted us... We knew that if we sat quietly we would be in the opposition. I sat with Yair Lapid and we a greed that Yesh Atid would not join the government without Bayit Yehudi, and Bayit Yehudi would not join the government without Yesh Atid,” he stated bluntly.

At 12:45 p.m., the prime minister is scheduled to meet with Sephardic Shas party leaders Eli Yishai, Aryeh Deri and Ariel Atias to discuss compromises that could soften the stance of Yesh Atid – which refuses to sit in the same coalition with Shas.

Following the meeting with Shas, Netanyahu is slated to head to one with Bayit Yehudi chairman Naftali Bennett, scheduled at 3:30 p.m.

On Saturday, Yishai slammed Bennett for his party’s pact: Yesh Atid and Bayit Yehudi have said they will not sit in a coalition with UTJ and Shas. “HaBayit HaYehudi has sold out its soul, its beliefs and the future of the settlement enterprise,” Yishai said in a statement to reporters. “Bennett sacrificed it at the altar of hatred.”

UTJ MK Moshe Gafni also had harsh criticism for Bennett in a Hebrew-language interview Sunday morning broadcast on Army Radio (Galei Tzahal). “Naftali Bennett says, ‘There can be no government without Yair Lapid, and I am going with him.’ That means he is saying the hareidi parties will not be in the coalition,” Gafni said. “Naftali Bennett and the Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) are shooting an arrow through out hearts, doing things that should not be done since the State was established,” he declared.

Let the Headlines Speak
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Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

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