Balad says it opposed recommending Gantz for PM over his ‘Zionist ideology’

Balad says it rejects recommending “General Benny Gantz” as a candidate to form the next government, despite the rest of its fellow factions in the Joint List doing so.

In a statement, the faction says its members expressed their rejection of appointing Gantz in Joint List meetings because of his “Zionist ideology, his right-wing positions that are not much different than the Likud, his bloody and aggressive military history.”

The statement also says Balad opposes recommending Gantz because “he intends to establish a ‘national unity’ government with the participation of Liberman and the Likud” and because Blue and White refused “to publicly pledge to implement the demands that the Joint List presented it and preferred to ignore and not officially respond to them.”

— Adam Rasgon