Likud minister blasts Gantz’s ‘lowly’ actions, and other reactions

Some reactions to Yuli Edelstein’s resignation:

Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev of Likud says: “Applause to Gantz, Lapid, Ashkenazi, Bogie [Ya’alon] and Liberman. You did it. You will go down in the history books as being behind one of the lowliest acts Israeli democracy has known. Take it away from here — a Jewish minority alongside the list of terror supporters.”

MK Ofer Shelah of Blue and White has quite a different take, calling the resignation an act of war by Likud against democracy. The resignation, he says, “does not absolve [Edelstein] of following the High Court’s decision to convene the plenum and elect a new speaker [today]… We will not let this pass.”

MK Miki Zohar of Likud, a top ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calls on him to “halt negotiations on unity with Blue and White.”

Meretz’s Tamar Zandberg says Edelstein “cannot flout a High Court ruling by resigning and must carry it out.”