Bennett says Likud wants unity with Zionist Union

Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett warns right-wing voters in a Facebook post that Likud wishes to build a coalition with Zionist Union and without Jewish Home.

“The mask is off,” Bennett writes, perhaps in a reference to the Jewish holiday of Purim, “In Likud they want to establish a government with Buji [Isaac Herzog]/Tzipi [Livni], without Jewish Home. Share, so they won’t lead us on.”

“This happened also last time around,” Bennett continues. “Likud took in Tzipi (with 6 Knesset seats only!) and tried to keep us out. Only a large Jewish Home will force Likud into a government without the left.”

On Thursday morning, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, who is running in the seventh slot on the Likud list, said on Army Radio that Likud “was not overruling the possibility of unity [with Zionist Union], but will not agree to a rotational agreement on the role of prime minister.”

The Likud reaction is published by Ynet:

There will be no unity government and there is no possibility of establishing one. Likud led by Netanyahu will not establish a government with a party where top candidates distance themselves from the value of Zionism and from the national anthem ‘Hatikva,’ where some members call for not serving in the IDF, and where the leaders are willing to divide Jerusalem. Prime Minister Netanyahu will turn to our natural partners, mostly Jewish Home, to establish a national government – but in order to do this we need a large Likud. Only a large Likud will prevent a left government.