Tensions in the coalition ahead of the vote to recognize the Kfar Qassem massacre - Walla! news

2021-10-27T11:14:17.009Z

MK Toma Suleiman's bill, for official recognition of the 1956 massacre, will be put to a vote in the plenum today. The right-wing parties even sent a message that the vote would undermine cohesion ahead of budget approval

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Tensions in the coalition ahead of the vote to recognize the Kfar Qassem massacre

MK Toma Suleiman's bill, for official recognition of the 1956 massacre, will be put to a vote in the plenum today.

The right-wing parties even sent a message that the vote would undermine cohesion ahead of budget approval

Live broadcast from the Knesset Plenum (Photo: Knesset Channel)

Tensions in the coalition before the vote today (Wednesday) in the Knesset on the bill initiated by MK Aida Touma-Suleiman joint list officially recognized the massacre in Kafr Kassem and introduction to the curriculum.

Earlier this week rejected Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved the law in requiring the coalition to oppose the proposal, but ill Meretz has since demanded freedom of vote to allow party members to be absent or support the proposal.

Coalition officials tried to prevent the embarrassment that could be caused by the vote and worked to persuade MK Toma Suleiman to remove it from the agenda, but the latter vehemently opposed it. In the government on the eve of the budget approval.

A memorial to the massacre in Kafr Qassem (Photo: Official Website, Wikipedia)

The parties will try to reach a compromise until the actual vote, but even if REM and Meretz would vote for the bill, it is not expected to pass because of opposition Likud and the religious and ultra-Orthodox factions, despite being in the opposition.

Before the vote, MK Ibtisam Mara'ana (Labor) called the proposed support The law "is an extremely important move."

However, she noted that "my finger is not the one that will decide the issue. Since this morning journalists have been asking me whether I will go against my faction, and the answer is unequivocally no."

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Tensions in the coalition ahead of the vote to recognize the Kfar Qassem massacre - Walla! news

Tensions in the coalition ahead of the vote to recognize the Kfar Qassem massacre

Live broadcast from the Knesset Plenum (Photo: Knesset Channel)

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