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Ben Gvir: Netanyahu and Bennett aren’t really right wing
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleOtzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben Gvir tells Channel 12 that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Naftali Bennett are not truly right wing.
While his far-right party is far from likely to clear the electoral threshold on Monday according to polls, Ben Gvir says he has no intention to drop out unless Netanyahu agrees to a long list of demands, including the immediate evacuation of the Bedouin hamlet of Khan al-Ahmar.
He avoids answering a question of whether he is a Kahanist, saying that there are many things that the late extremist rabbi Meir Kahane believed in that he does as well. However, Ben Gvir says he does not agree with Kahane’s stance that there should be separate beaches for Jews and Arabs.
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