Netanyahu clarifies and condemns the statements of his accomplices, but he is the one who chose to make an alliance with the extremists - voila! news

In video: Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo: Prime Minister's Office)

A few hours apart, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last night (Sunday) published two messages condemning the scandalous statements of his partners from religious Zionism.

After the publication of the coalition agreements of his sixth government, Knesset members Orit Struck and Simcha Rothman went out to celebrate their victory and achievement in Netanyahu's agreement to amend the anti-discrimination law in the new government.

They explained their interpretation of the law, which would allow them not to provide services for reasons of religious belief.

Netanyahu, in his first response, followed the method of denial, known by his catchphrase: "What, why?".

Although the law in question appears in black and white, the prime minister-designate claimed that the coalition agreements do not include harm to the LGBT community. Only later, when the Likud realized the magnitude of the damage, did they rush to publish a second clarification, this time on video, in which Netanyahu clarified and promised that during his tenure there would be no Discrimination. Not against the LGBT community, not against the Arabs and not at all.

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"What, what happened?"

Netanyahu (Photo: Reuters)

This is not the first time that Netanyahu has had to clean up after his accomplices.

In the two months that have passed since the elections, and even more so as the coalition negotiations have progressed, the Likud has had to deal with the statements, positions and statements of members of the future coalition.

The first cleaning job was for the chairman of the Noam party, Avi Maoz, who demanded and received broad educational powers over all the schools in Israel, an extensive platform for the promotion of his dark anti-LGBT doctrine.

In the storm that followed, Likud officials explained that they did not understand the size of the gift and the power they gave to the stronghold.

Netanyahu hastened to reassure that he would watch over his work and there would be no harm to the LGBT community.

Later, after his ultra-Orthodox partners and the ultra-Orthodox demanded the abolition of the grandson clause in the Law of Return and jumped on Diaspora Judaism, Netanyahu made sure in a series of interviews in English to promise that he would not change the law of return. Well, needless to say, the demand of the ultra-Orthodox and the ultra-Orthodox to amend the law was indeed included in the coalition agreements, Although in a watered-down version - which promises to review the amendments to the law through a committee - a code name for Mesmos in the government, but still with an expiration date - within 60 days of the inauguration of the government.

The first cleaning job began with him.

Maoz (Photo: Reuven Castro)

After that there was also the chairman of Agudath Israel, the designated Minister of Housing Yitzhak Goldknopf, who claimed that there is no housing crisis in Israel. Also his partner Moshe Gafni, who suggested that half of the people should be mobilized and the other half study Torah, and the designated Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich, who said in an interview that the economic abundance will be achieved through Torah and faith.

And at the end of the week, while the detailed coalition agreements were published one after the other and revealed the extent to which the Likud gave in to the demands of its partners, another cherry was added to the cream: the publication in Yediot Ahronoth of the Noam party's blacklists that label feminists and members of the LGBT community, which fueled the fear even more. The outrage and protest of secular and liberal publics against the new government.

Then came Strock and Rothman, and added more to the celebration with the prohibition of discrimination.

The fact that Netanyahu bothered to issue two statements of condemnation and clarification mainly indicates the rising pressure level.

The fact that he bothered to issue two notices of condemnation and clarification mainly indicates the rising pressure level.

Netanyahu (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Netanyahu is impatiently waiting for the swearing in of the government, next Thursday or next Monday at the latest.

Each day of negotiations only raises the demands of his partners, allowing them to celebrate at his expense and draw the fire to him.

The demands and statements of the ultra-Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox politicians only harm Likud, and reveal the party's soft underbelly - religion and state, their secular-liberal weakness in the government, and Netanyahu's inability to calm his partners. He promised his voters a full right-wing government, but the agenda of the future coalition since the elections reflects a full-on religious government, and it is not certain that this is what they fell for.

Only that, contrary to Netanyahu's surprising clarifications and condemnations, there is no surprise in the events: this is the porridge he himself cooked. He is the one who chose to make a political alliance with the ultra-Orthodox and the extremist settlers, due to his situation the criminal and the legal, and he is the one who negotiated with them in the last two months without limits or stopping and gave them almost everything they asked for.

Smotrich and Goldknopf (photo: Reuven Castro)

Likud now blames the boycott of the opposing bloc on the extremism of the emerging government, and inelegantly forgets the deception that brought down the previous unity government.

And in any case, it doesn't explain what happened in the negotiations.

Netanyahu did not have to hand over the responsibility for the school enrichment programs to Abi Maoz, nor agree to Ben Gabir's demand to change the reasons for disqualification from running for the Knesset in order to train Otzma Yehudit people who were disqualified in the past for racism.

He also did not have to comply with the demand of religious Zionism, and commit not to sign an international convention to combat violence against women, as was revealed yesterday in Walla!, or to the hundreds of total demands of all the parties in the coalition that appear in the most detailed coalition agreements the Knesset has ever known.

Likud senior officials quietly filter that not everything that was agreed on paper will actually be realized, and signal that at least some clauses in the agreements will be dissolved in the abyss of feminism.

Netanyahu hopes that on the day of the inauguration the equation will be reversed, and his partners will think twice before they threaten to dissolve the government.

But since they will not change their friendships and suddenly become lovers of Kedma, women's rights and the LGBT community, it is likely that this is only the beginning, and the cleaning work will continue even after the establishment of the government.

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