In the video: Lapid attacked Netanyahu in front of the Speaker of the House of Representatives: "We will do everything so that Israel remains a democracy" (Knesset Channel)
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Yair Lapid exchanged arguments today (Monday) on the stage of the Knesset during the 40-signature debate on the issue of constitutional legislation, which was mainly concerned with the legal reform advanced by the coalition. Addressing the opposition, Netanyahu accused: "You only say in discourse and dialogue only no no no no.
I would be happy to hear why you do agree, because it will advance us in the discussion.
You are only ready to speak and not listen."
Netanyahu added: "Even if there are differences of opinion between us, and I'm not saying this for nothing, I call on you to listen, to come to your senses, to recalculate a course, to enter into a real conversation with us to try to reach agreements because it stands the test of time .
Stop rejecting every offer we bring and enter the equal valley.
This is what the people of Israel need."
"There are brothers and there are brothers."
Netanyahu in the Plenum, May 1, 2023 (Photo: Reuven Castro)
He further stated: "I said on these holy days that we are brotherly people. I mentioned on one of the occasions that the Bible teaches us that there are brothers and there are brothers.
There is Cain and Abel and there is Moses and Aaron.
We aspire to be Moses and Aaron, but that is not what I heard here today.
What I heard was only shouting and defiance and not talking."
Lapid said from the Knesset dais that "in the last two weeks the government started talking about the unity of the people.
It's a refreshing innovation.
Before you just told us to go to hell, suddenly you stopped, and started saying that it is very important to preserve the unity of the people."
He added: "I'm not cynical about it, I welcome it.
It is better to talk about the unity of the people than the intoxication of power that was here after the elections.
This is also what the people would like.
This is what the sane majority would like, for the government to work in unity, not in division.
The question is, what are you willing to do for unity?
Because the unity of the people is not something that happens by itself.
The nation is falling apart, families are being torn apart, children don't come to Shabbat meals with their parents because of politics."
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"Suddenly you started saying that it is important to maintain unity", Yair Lapid, May 1, 2023 (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Lapid concluded: "If the unity of the people is really important to you - stop and everything will balance out. You will do your duty as a government, and there will be unity in the people. We will continue to argue, I will continue to think that you are a shocking and failed government, but this will be a fight over issues that are really important to the citizens of Israel, about the economy And for security. And most importantly - this will return to being a quarrel within the family."
During the debate, Minister Akunis repeatedly interrupted Lapid's speech, who responded by saying: "There is a law in nature that every vacuum will eventually be filled, except for you."
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