Joint (Arab) List candidate Ahmad Tibi says in the Ynet studio that his new party will not join an Isaac Herzog-led coalition because of “collective responsibility.”
During a debate with Jewish Home’s Ayelet Shaked, Tibi says joining the coalition cannot happen “in the current conditions of occupation and estrangement.” Being part of a bloc that would prevent a right-wing government, Tibi says, “is something else.”
At one point in the debate, Shaked asks Tibi, “Is a large amount of Qatari money, funneled by Azmi Bishara, thrown in the campaign in order to increase voting numbers in the Arab sector?”
Tibi responds that “this is a vile and ridiculous lie. We are barely making it financially. But this is not what’s important, what is important is that we are heading for a historic victory.”
Bishara is a former Balad MK who was disgraced after the Second Lebanon War for passing intelligence information to Hezbollah. Bishara fled Israel and lives today in Qatar.
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