Meretz MK says Sa’ar won’t bring West Bank bill up this week since he lacks majority

Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi claims that Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar will not bring to a vote this week the West Bank legislation that was defeated in the Knesset last week.

“Minister Gideon Sa’ar decided not to bring the Judea and Samaria Law to a vote in the Knesset this week, after he realized that I am resolutely opposed to the bill on ideological grounds and unwilling to compromise or discuss the issue at all,” Rinawie Zoabi tweets.

A spokesman for Sa’ar says the minister “will bring it whenever he assesses that there will be a majority for it.”

The legislation, which renews the application of Israeli law — criminal and some civil — to settlers in the West Bank, was advanced by the cabinet earlier today.

Sa’ar is possibly hoping that Rinawie Zoabi — as well as Ra’am MK Mazen Ghanaim, who both voted against the bill last week — will be pressured to quit the Knesset and pave way for new lawmakers to join who could vote in favor.