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Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Ra’am leader swipes at Netanyahu: You held coalition talks with me during 2021 Gaza war
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Ra’am chief Mansour Abbas hits back at opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu after the latter suggested the Islamist faction’s inclusion in the coalition was preventing the government from getting tough on terror.
“Last year during [Operation] Guardian of the Walls we sat three times at [the Prime Minister’s Residence], we held negotiations about a partnership between Likud and Ra’am and a coalition agreement,” Abbas is quoted as saying by Channel 12 news, using the official designation of the May 2021 Gaza war.
“Then we weren’t the Islamic Movement?”
Netanyahu’s Likud party responds by claiming it never held coalition talks with Ra’am and being even more explicit than the former prime minister.
“A government that is dependent on the Islamist Movement can’t really fight terror,” it says.
The Times of Israel Community.