Yesh Atid leaders rail against government

Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid and head of party’s Knesset faction Ofer Shellah denounce the violent Beit El protests and the right-wing Nationalist Camp coalition.

“How do they dare call themselves the Nationalist Camp, and then go hit police officers and IDF soldiers?” Lapid asks in a statement.

“How do they dare call themselves the Nationalist Camp and then come out against the rule of law and the court? How do they dare call themselves the Nationalist Camp and then weaken us in front of the world?” he adds.

“The true nationalist camp is the majority of Israeli citizens that are not prepared to have their country disintegrate like outlaws,” Lapid says.

Shellah, meanwhile, tells Israeli citizens, “So that there is no doubt: What is going on in Beit El — and is being reflected in the remarks of ministers and MKs — is not a question of building codes, but rather a fight to resolve the rule of law.”

He says, “For the ten years since the disengagement, those that see themselves as the messengers of a commandment that is above the law have decided to show us who’s boss.

“But the outlaws in the field, that are throwing rocks at police, they are our little problem,” Shellah says.

The bigger problem, he writes, are “the people sitting in the government and in the Knesset, who say things like ‘we need to put a bulldozer’s blade to the High Court’ or who appeal against the right of the court to rule according to the law.”