In the video: Ben-Gvir answers Netanyahu: "We will not get to votes" (Photo: Avi Rokach)
Coalition Chairman Ofir Katz attacked National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Monday after he boycotted a cabinet meeting yesterday. This comes after criticism came earlier today from Bezalel Smotrich as well.
"You can say until tomorrow that 'you don't topple a right-wing government,'" Ofir Katz said of Ben-Gvir's actions, "but to be absent from a cabinet meeting, a meeting of coalition leaders, to boycott plenary votes and cancel discussions on the budget is exactly the paved way to topple the right-wing government, and everyone knows who will be responsible. Right-wing policies are promoted by hard and joint work, not by strikes."
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"You can say until tomorrow that 'we won't topple a right-wing government,'" Ofir Katz (Photo: Reuven Castro)
At the beginning of a meeting of the "Religious Zionism" faction, Smotrich said that "the way to bring about change is not by threatening to topple the government and boycotting the government and the coalition votes in the Knesset. The biggest prize for terrorism is the overthrow of the right-wing government and the rise of the left, together with terror supporters, to power." Smotrich also called on Ben-Gvir and the prime minister to sit down and talk in order to get the work of the government and the coalition back on track ahead of the approval of the state budget in its second and third readings.
Earlier this month, after the barrage of rockets fired from Gaza into Israel, Ben-Gvir announced that he would boycott government meetings in protest of the Israeli response, which he claimed was insufficient. This is against the background of Ben-Gvir's existing anger that Netanyahu does not involve him in security discussions or situation assessments. "If you don't want Jewish power in the government, you're welcome to fire us," Ben-Gvir told Netanyahu last week, announcing that he would boycott the meetings "until the prime minister understands that the goal of this government is a full-fledged right-wing government."
"We should be invited to security discussions and not just as decoration," Ben-Gvir (Photo: Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel)
"He should invite us to security discussions and not just as decoration. We are partners and we need to be influential as well," Ben-Gvir said. "After four months, unfortunately, as I said at the meeting of the coalition leaders, this is not happening. Gaza shells us time after time, the response is weak and weak. A legal reform that they are trying to undermine and undermine despite the demands of the entire right-wing camp. Khan al-Ahmar is not being evacuated and the government is giving a shameful response to the Supreme Court."
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