Bennett says those who say government was a mistake ‘are suffering from post-trauma’

Alternate Prime Minister Naftali Bennett offers veiled criticism of his erstwhile partner Ayelet Shaked in a speech at an event in Lod.

“My decision to establish a government in Israel was the best and most Zionist decision that I have made in my life,” Bennett says. “Some of those who say now that it was a mistake are suffering from post-trauma.”

Bennett blames the poisonous “machine” coming from the opposition for leading to such expressions of regret: “They are deterred and trampled and crushed. And I don’t blame them and I’m not angry.”

After splitting from Yoaz Hendel earlier this week, Shaked said that she had “made mistakes” in the past, without explicitly saying that joining the government was a mistake.

In response to Bennett’s remarks, Shaked says that the last government “fell apart” because it was “restrained by boycotts” — namely the refusal to sit with Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu. “It’s time to put an end to the boycotts,” she says, and establish “a right-wing government.”