Labor leader Merav Michaeli slams the coalition’s planned allocation of NIS 12 billion to partner parties’ priorities as “political protection payments,” in remarks at the outset of her center-left opposition party’s Monday Knesset faction meeting.
Touching on Sunday night reports that the coalition is planning to distribute a significant amount of discretionary funding to political priorities, she says that the funds are “a bribe to the ultra-Orthodox, a bribe to settlers, and a bribe to the extreme and dangerous messianic right, which endangers Israel.”
In keeping the coalition together through discretionary allocations, Michaeli says, the funds will encourage the cohesion of allied parties that “vote against democracy, against equality, against women’s rights, against LGBT rights, against civil equality, against the prospects for peace — simply against the State of Israel.”
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