The Minister for Regional Cooperation claims: "All true peace has been achieved by the right" • On the future of the faltering government: "Elections in 2021; Ganz will not enter Balfour" • Full interview - tomorrow in "Israel This Week"
"A golden opportunity has fallen here, something once in a generation. We are at work 18 hours a day. Regional cooperation is one of the most important issues in the government," said Regional Cooperation Minister Ophir Akunis in an interview published tomorrow in "Israel Hashavua."
The Israeli-American delegation leaves Ben Gurion Airport for the Emirates // Photo: Reuters
He said, "This week we have seen with our own eyes a new Middle East, not a weak Middle East. If you look at the history of the agreements in recent years, any true peace has been achieved by the right while peace of retreats like Oslo and the disengagement are terrible failures of the left. And escape. "
According to Akonis, after the signing of the agreements in Washington with the Emirates, trading volumes worth $ 500 million will begin.
On the credit they are trying to take in blue and white, he says that "if anyone tries to create the impression that he entered the government in May and since then there has been a huge turn in policy it mocks Rash. No one believes it. This is a strategy built by the Likud for decades." Even before blue and white was established at all. "
Akunis claims that more elections will take place as early as 2021 and therefore the rotation with Ganz will not materialize.
He said, "I did not vote for Gantz and I do not think he should be prime minister. I would like to see Netanyahu lead Israel in the coming years as prime minister and not an alternate - and I believe that will happen."
Akunis is interested in running for mayor of Tel Aviv and does not spare criticism of the current mayor for lighting the city hall with the Lebanese flag: "This is an unnecessary provocation."
He further attacked and said: "Under the rat, business owners are collapsing under the burden of municipal supervision and the" reports of his time. "
He recently quarreled over the synagogue with MK Yair Golan, who tweeted (and then deleted) that Akunis should "get his head out of Netanyahu's seat." Akonis does not forgive and says: "The last thing that can be said about him is that he is a parliamentarian or a worthy man to be a partner in the discourse. parliamentary.
He responded in a childish, unparliamentary, ugly and rude manner.
"When we talk about a dangerous and shallow public discourse, an MK like Yair Golan is an example of this. It will not be forgiven. My children would not talk like that. It means everything."
