Left-wing MKs blast Netanyahu, Bennett for disingenuous Amona bill

Zionist Union MKs accuse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Education Minister Naftali Bennett of duplicity in allowing the Amona bill, also known as the regulation bill, to go to a vote when they know it won’t ultimately be upheld.

The government “expects the High Court to do its job and save it from itself,” and will subsequently blame the court for torpedoing the legislation, MK Merav Michaeli charges, during a Zionist Union faction meeting.

She says she predicts increased “incitement” against the Supreme Court and its justices.

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog, however, says he — not the judiciary — has become “Bibi’s new target for incitement and hatred.”

He says he “feels the pain” of the Amona residents, but the court order must stand.

His partner, MK Tzipi Livni, says Netanyahu and Bennett are leading Israel, with their “childish decision, to the [UN] Security Council.”

She says that if the regulation bill is presaging an effort to annex the West Bank, “then the government, with all of its parties, should muster up the courage and say so.”

— Marissa Newman