Gantz on scrapped Likud-Otzma Yehudit deal: Netanyahu selling out his party to racists

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz lays into Prime Minister Netanyahu after the extremist Otzma Yehudit party said it had reached a deal with Likud to drop out of the elections, but the premier reneged on it.

“Netanyahu is prepared to to sell himself and the values of the Likud movement to racists. He already offered the Kahanists money and jobs and now he is offering them a real union, including a reserved spot [on Likud’s electoral slate] and an obligation to Kahanist ideology,” Gantz writes on his official Twitter account.

Likud neither confirmed nor denied the details of the agreement as outlined by Otzma Yehudit, instead calling on leader Itamar Ben-Gvir to “show responsibility” and quit the race in order “to not burn votes and harm the right-wing victory.”