Far-right Ben Gvir: Abbas speech trying to portray terror backer as ‘teddy bear’

1 April 2021, 8:46 pm

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Itamar Ben Gvir, the leader of the extremist Otzma Yehudit faction of the Religious Zionism party, lambastes Ra’am party leader Mansour Abbas’s speech calling for Jewish-Arab partnership, saying it is a cover for a politician who supports murderers and terrorists.

“Mansour Abbas’s speech tries to present as a ‘cuddly teddy bear’ someone who belongs to the Islamic Movement, supports Hamas and sanctifies murderers of babies,” he says in a statement.

“Any coalition propped up by Abbas would be the end of the right wing, and we have no public mandate to do that,” he adds, calling on right-wing party leaders Naftali Bennett and Gideon Sa’ar to help form a right-wing government.