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The bill to amend the Nationality Law was rejected; Amsalem: "Pouring the Prime Minister's Blood" | Israel today

2020-07-29T12:58:26.484Z


| politicalThe Yesh Atid initiative did not materialize • Ganz was absent from the vote • Amsalem attacked the MKs from the left: "You are inciting levels that if Netanyahu had taken to the streets, he would have been shot." The Knesset plenum today (Wednesday) rejected the bill of Yesh Atid to amend the Nationality Law by a majority of 53 opponents compared to 21 supporters. Bish Atid wanted to introduce a...


The Yesh Atid initiative did not materialize • Ganz was absent from the vote • Amsalem attacked the MKs from the left: "You are inciting levels that if Netanyahu had taken to the streets, he would have been shot."

The Knesset plenum today (Wednesday) rejected the bill of Yesh Atid to amend the Nationality Law by a majority of 53 opponents compared to 21 supporters. Bish Atid wanted to introduce a section in the law that guarantees equal rights for all citizens of the country, in an attempt to embarrass the replacement Prime Minister Bnei Gantz and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi.

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In contrast to last week's vote on the conversion law in which blue and white people voted with the opposition, this time most of them, including Ganz and Ashkenazi, preferred to vote with their feet and be absent from the vote. MK 'Adir Kamal-Marih (Yesh Atid), who presented the bill, asked, "Are the good ones for the Druze pilot not good enough to be equal citizens in the country? Why is the Jewish people afraid of equality? Israel spoke of equality and enacted the Nationality Law out of fear. "

The coalition agreement of the Likud and Blue and White stipulates that the Nationality Law in its current wording will not be changed. In the face of harsh criticism from the Druze community against the law, in the past Ministers Bnei Gantz and Gabi Ashkenazi pledged to support its amendment.

Minister Ashkenazi said last week that he understands the outrage and anger that the law evokes among members of the Druze community. Defense Minister Ganz supported his remarks: "We need to make sure we build our covenant of life together, as it should be." The minister also promised that "I will do everything in my power to change the legislation, which will bring to light the deep connection that can not be canceled - not only in battle, but also in life."

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Meanwhile, during the Knesset debate on the law, a heated confrontation developed between Minister David Amsalem and opposition Knesset members, after the Minister of National Digital addressed the demonstrators who were attacked yesterday in a demonstration held last night in Tel Aviv.

Minister Amsalem said: “We hear the Minister of Justice (Avi Nissenkorn, GA) expects the Prime Minister to condemn the violence. He claims that there is insane incitement and he expects the prime minister and the minister to come out against it, because there is incitement against the demonstrators and there is incitement against the courts and incitement against the rule of law. "

In place of @AviNissenkorn who was supposed to respond to the bill to amend the Nationality Law, Minister @dudiamsalem came up attacking members of the opposition: "You become the creators you will see the violence you cause anarchy". Minister Amsalem added: "The Nationality Law was enacted because of the Law of Return, in the State of Israel there is one nation" pic.twitter.com/wVifhG1D6w

Knesset Channel (@KnessetT) July 29, 2020

According to him, several MKs have been inciting against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a daily basis for the past four years. "You started with all the division in the State of Israel, you and all the systems that support you. The basic violence is inherent in you," he said. "You are anti-democratic people, you do not accept the people's decision and you will never accept it until you have been elected. You shed the prime minister's blood on a daily basis. You incite to levels that if he had taken to the streets, he would have been shot."

The minister also told members of the opposition that they call the right-wing public "herbivores" because they are "arrogant, arrogant, arrogant and believe in your own bluff. You think you are allowed to do anything in the State of Israel. You become the creators." Amsalem continued to attack, saying that "you cause anarchy in the State of Israel every day."

Earlier today, Netanyahu referred to the violent incidents in the demonstration, in which four demonstrators were arrested - and said he expects the police to bring to justice those responsible for the violence: "There is no room for violence for any reason." The Prime Minister added that there is also "no place in Israeli society for incitement and threats of murder against and against my family members." He says many media and public figures ignore when murder threats are made against him and his family.

Source: israelhayom

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