i24 News – Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Friday said that, contrary to reports in the local media, the coalition government was not bound to dissolve following the resignation of a dovish parliamentarian.
Meretz lawmaker Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi stepped down from the government on Thursday, sending shockwaves through Israeli politics and leaving the coalition led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett with a parliamentary minority of 59 seats out of 120.
“We have been already eulogized five times, with special broadcasts, with special news broadcasts and all, and we came back,” Lapid wrote on Facebook. “Now the same people are telling you that it’s all done for when it’s not, we’re still here.”
He further asserted that the coalition — cobbled together from parties on disparate sides of the political spectrum and united primarily by their opposition to Bennett’s predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu — was “the right thing for the state of Israel and the Israeli people.”
“We have no intention of surrendering. We have no intention of giving Netanyahu and [far-right firebrand Itamar] Ben-Gvir a chance to lay waste to the country. We will do what we’ve done every time, talk with whom we need to talk, fix what needs to be fixed,” he said.
In a letter announcing her decision to leave the coalition Zoabi, an Arab-Israeli, said: “Again and again the heads of the coalition have taken hawkish, rigid and right-wing stances regarding basic issues of utmost importance for Arab society.”
Oh, okay. I won’t.
united primarily by their opposition to Bennett’s predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu — was “the right thing for the state of Israel and the Israeli people.”
BTW the rules are the rules, and how can you be in power with a minority of 59 if Likud couldn’t be in power with a minority of 59?
Herr us my eulogy!
Thanks for bringing in Simchat Shabbat unto so many Jews who are celebrating! This government is so vile anti Chareidim and anti family! Just to think that paper goods have a tax that causes a package of plastic cups to cost $3.50 when one can buy the same package in NJ or NY for 99 cents. A 1.5 liter bottle of coke costs $3.00. They did not advance any concerns of the Chareidim, rather they funneled many millions to Ra’am, the Arab party, so that they should join the coalition.
The goal of this government was to brutally burdensome
on people. We are elated to finally see you fall apart.
Nobody eulogizes a corrupt government. They scorn it, condemn and slander it. This time their downfall came just when the evil government started up with the Holy Rabi Shimon Bar Yochai.