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Thursday, December 12, 2019
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Thursday, December 12, 2019
Gantz: I’d consider immunity for Netanyahu — if he leaves office
Blue and White leader Benny Gantz says he’d consider supporting parliamentary immunity for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — in exchange for the latter’s departure from the political scene.
The idea was first broached earlier today by Yisrael Beytenu chief Avigdor Liberman.
“We’d consider that,” Gantz says at a meeting of his faction in the Knesset. “It would be good to save us all the shameful spectacle of a prime minister in prison,” he adds.
He insists he had sought “unity, while Netanyahu wanted immunity” in the failed coalition talks of the past three months.
“Israel is going to yet another election because one man put himself above his fellow citizens,” he accuses.
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