Meretz MKs last night (Wednesday) attacked President Yitzhak Herzog, due to his intention to attend the first Hanukkah candle lighting event in Hebron this coming Sunday.
MKs Musi Raz, Gabi Lasky and Michal Rosin issued a joint statement: "The president should be a unifying figure. Control of Hebron in general and the occupied territories in particular is in sharp political controversy. Of all the settlements, the settlement in Hebron around the Cave of the Patriarchs is the most outrageous. On top of his joy. "
MK Gabi Lasky, Photo: Gideon Markowitz
MK Michal Rosin, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
MK Musi Raz, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
To MK Raz's tweet, MK Amichai Shikli (right) responded: "Documenting the purchase of the Cave of the Patriarchs from Efron for NIS 400 silver by Avraham is probably the oldest Kushan bill in history. Yosef crossed all of Sinai to fulfill his father's will, named after him "Our country, to be buried in it. David reigned in Hebron before he reigned in Jerusalem and the renewed Jewish settlement there would have been much greater had it not been for the horrific massacre in 1943, this is our country."
The president should indeed be a unifying figure.
Therefore, he also lights candles in the Cave of the Patriarchs and also visits Tel Aviv, Kiryat Shmona, Kibbutz Hashomer Hatzair, Dimona and the Gaza Envelope.
For you, unity is only with your side and division is everything you do not agree with.
Except that there is no such thing as occupied territories.
A nation cannot be an occupier in its own land.
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- Bezalel Smutrich (@bezalelsm) November 24, 2021
Chairman of Religious Zionism MK Bezalel Smutrich: "The president should indeed be a unifying figure. That is why he also lights candles in the Cave of the Patriarchs and also visits Tel Aviv, Kiryat Shmona, Kibbutz Hashomer Hatzair, Dimona and the Gaza Envelope communities. "Yours and division is all that you do not agree with. Except that there is no such thing as occupied territories. A people cannot be occupying its land."
No response was received from the President's House.
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