The outgoing Prime Minister and Chairman of Yesh Atid, Yair Lapid, said at the beginning of his faction's meeting today (Monday) that "What we are seeing in recent days is not coalition negotiations, it is looting.
Looting of the public treasury, looting of democratic values.
Plunder that humiliates us in front of the whole world."
"I ask myself who was the most afraid to live in this country yesterday - LGBT people who heard from Rothman that they would not be admitted to hotels, Arabs who heard from Orit Strock that doctors are allowed to refuse to treat them, activists in women's organizations who discovered that they appear on Avi Maoz's blacklists, reformers and conservatives who heard from Porush That they be banned from coming to the Western Wall, or the senior prosecutors and the police who heard from Meir Netanyahu that they should be prosecuted for treason punishable by death?
"It's in one day! It's the harvest of one day in the life of a government that hasn't been established yet. It's no longer a political struggle. It's a struggle for the soul of the State of Israel as a Jewish state, as a democratic state, as a sane state.
"If anyone thinks that this will stop the establishment of the government, they are completely wrong. It never stops. There has never been - anywhere in the world, at any moment in history - religious and nationalist extremism that one day said on its own initiative, "That's it, I've had enough, I'm stopping."
"This attack will not stop by itself. They will not suddenly fall in love with democracy. They will not see the light and come to the conclusion that they believe in the liberal values of the Declaration of Independence. They will not wake up in the morning and remember that Judaism belongs to everyone.
"An extremist religious and nationalist government doesn't have a moment when it says, "It's time to consider people who think differently." They won't stop. If we don't stop them, it will get worse and worse. They realized that Netanyahu is weak, and they will continue to loot him, loot the Likud, plunder the country.
"We have already seen governments established in Israel. What is happening here is not a normal event. What we have before our eyes is the weakest prime minister that has ever been here, and a government in disorder. This is not a full-on right-wing government, it is a full-on madness government. We have no intention of sitting quietly in time that it is dismantling the State of Israel from within."
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