PM to Liberman: Are you willing to endanger Israel with gov’t leaning on Arabs?

14 November 2019, 7:43 pm

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a public call to Yisrael Beytenu chief Avigdor Liberman to clarify his stance on a minority government supported from outside by the Arab majority Joint List party.

“Will you and your faction vote against a government that leans on the support, or abstention, of MKs from the Arab Joint List, that you have defined as a fifth column?” he says in a statement.

Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Liberman speaks at a faction meeting at Neve Ilan west of Jerusalem, September 22, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

“I want to know the truth. Are you really willing to endanger Israel’s security and form a government dependent on [MKs] Ahmad Tibi and Ayman Odeh? Enough with these dangerous games. Give a clear-cut answer: yes or no?”