Joint List head publishes NYT op-ed announcing Gantz recommendation

As his Joint List party meets with President Reuven Rivlin, MK Ayman Odeh has an op-ed published in the New York Times announcing they’ll recommend Benny Gantz for prime minister.

“On behalf of the Joint List, I am recommending that Israel’s president choose Benny Gantz, the leader of the centrist Blue and White party, to be the next prime minister. This will be the most significant step toward helping create the majority needed to prevent another term for Mr. Netanyahu,” Odeh writes.

Odeh clarifies this doesn’t constitute an endorsement of Gantz himself or his policies but was in opposition to Netanyahu, who the Joint List head says “declared that Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel, who make up a fifth of the population, were to be second-class citizens.”