Knesset member and former coalition chairman Miki Zohar (Likud) announced today (Tuesday) that he will not participate in the Haaretz conference, although he initially announced his intention to do so. In a statement issued by Zohar, he explained his decision not to attend the conference due to the new foundation To Israel funded by the conference.
In a statement from MK Zohar, he wrote: "Some time ago, I was asked to attend the National Conference for Democracy in order to express the positions of the right and to express the voice of the national camp and the Likud. I found it appropriate to agree that the voice of the right should be heard everywhere, I was recently updated that an extreme left body like the new foundation that supports despicable organizations like Breaking the Silence and B'Tselem is funding the conference so I decided to cancel my participation immediately. With the help of the name, I will continue to represent the positions of the right and the Likud wherever possible, but I will not be able to give legitimacy to these organizations that work against the State of Israel in the world. "
It should be noted that in recent days, some of the organizations supported by the new fund have issued a statement of support for the six Palestinian organizations that Defense Minister Bnei Gantz declared terrorist organizations last week. Today, the EU envoy met with representatives of these six organizations, and expressed his opposition to the move made by the defense minister. A tweet on the EU's official Twitter account read: '' The EU representative clarified that the EU takes the issue very seriously, and asks for clarification from its Israeli partners. Past allegations of misuse of union funds by Palestinian civil society organizations have not been proven. The representative of the European Union reiterated that the Union will abide by international law, and will strengthen civil society organizations. "
Maor Tzemach of the Lech Yerushalayim organization, and Matan Peleg of the If You Will movement, said in response: "The EU will be ashamed of itself.
Apart from turning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a thriving business, where propaganda organizations and terrorist organizations profit from the conflict and make a living from it - it has never acted and done anything to calm the winds.
The political subversion and colonial impudence of the European Union knows no bounds.
"We very much hope that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will not show weakness, that he will stand firm even once against this foreign and intolerable intervention, and that he will defend Defense Minister Bnei Gantz in the full sense of the word."
