Joint List chairman Ayman Odeh tells the Kan public broadcaster that his majority-Arab party will not allow the “racist” Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman to become minister.
One of the scenarios available for Blue and White to form a government would be a minority coalition with Labor-Gesher-Meretz and Yisrael Beytenu, but it would require the outside support of the Joint List.
Odeh’s comments appeared to throw a wrench into those plans.
“We will not make Lieberman, the brains behind the transfer idea, a minister,” Odeh says, referring to Liberman’s support for the idea of having the Arab Israeli towns in the so-called triangle be transferred to the future state of Palestine in a peace deal.
Odeh claims that the only difference between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Liberman is that the latter is better at evading corruption charges.
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