Shas Party leader Aryeh Deri on Tuesday spoke with Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) and explained that he was approached to enter the coalition but the party remains uninterested in saving the current coalition.
Deri feels that the nation must head to the polls, the sooner the better! He laments the waste of funds but explained the current situation does not offer any other alternatives to elections.
Using Twitter to get the message out, Deri adds “The only deal made is for early elections and reports of any other deals are simply untrue”.
“I call on Yair and Tzipi – enough! We are brothers and enough of the hatred. Last night (Monday – 9 Kislev) towards evening certain persons continued efforts to bring us into a new coalition”.
Deri has already instructed party faction members to limit media interviews to showing party unity and not to give advice of one sort or another about a new coalition and all the possibilities.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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I’m really not buki in Knesset politics, but what does deri stand to gain by elections? I thought they will lose many seats in the next election?
#1 First, On a socio-economic front
less seats in gov’t is worth more than more seats on the outside
Second,Kahlon (if he does finally join) is likely to be more of an ally to Shas,although he’ll campaign against them for some of the same demographic
Third,Yesh atid will hopefully go down,
Hatnuah and kadimah will perhaps disappear
The media smells blood
Dr. Haim Shine
Elections for a new Knesset still have not been formally announced, but many of those who influence public opinion have answered their own emergency call-up and started working feverishly to topple the right-wing government. With practiced swiftness, the Left is pulling outdated and rusty weapons out of its arsenal.
The weapon deemed most efficient against the Israeli Right is the assassination of then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The memory of a man dear to everyone has never been put to such cynical political use. Once again, the same as before every election since that event, the Right as a whole is blamed for incitement and for his murder. The media flashes images of politicians in Nazi uniforms, horrible images. An accusing finger is pointed at the Right even before anyone verifies who is behind them, while anyone with any sense realizes that whoever is spreading the images around social media is seeking to hurt the Right.
In an age when law enforcement agencies have access to the most sophisticated technology in the world, it is difficult to understand how the people disseminating these pictures still have not been caught. I hope those responsible for publishing these images are caught and sent to prison for years. If they aren’t, we will begin to suspect this is a provocation by the same people who popped champagne in the days before Rabin was murdered. It is unclear to me how, despite the time that has passed, the folks who allegedly committed the “price-tag” vandalism on mosques, schools, and religious institutions still have not been caught. For the sake of rule of law in Israel and to prevent a civil war, I hope these matters are solved quickly. Solving them is vital to peace in our society.
Interested parties in the media are preparing to create a new rising star that will enable them to attack the Likud party and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This time, the new hero is former Likud minister Moshe Kahlon, a popular figure who managed to lower the prices of cellular communications, a world-class achievement. The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, which in the last elections used others to foster its needs, will laud and strengthen Kahlon, embracing Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman along the way. We’ll read headlines about the great hope of our time: that an apartment in Tel Aviv will cost the same as a tent in Namibia, and the manufacturers of Milky pudding snacks (the focal point of the last round of cost-of-living protests in Israel) will stand in the street and beg people to buy their product. In my opinion, the newspaper will once again be disappointed. Kahlon will prefer to join forces with Likud and the religious parties than with the Left, which wants to restore Israel to the 1967 borders — borders that will stop Israelis from flying off to Berlin, because Ben-Gurion Airport will be paralyzed.
Morning, noon and night, the media are enlisted to portray Israel as an emergency patient on life support. They try to convince everyone how hard the situation here is: no work, no income, no pension, most of the people are going hungry, living in the street and begging. When they get desperate, they’ll explain that due to conditions of undernourishment and lack of basic sanitation, the Ebola virus is already here.
But the truth is completely different. Most people in the country are doing well. The roads are chock-full of new cars, hundreds of thousands vacation abroad, and restaurants are busy. Israel is a world power in technology, with an amazing number of college graduates. None of this matters to those who want to leave us in the dark.
Complete waste of resources and energies will go into NEW ELECTIONS. Get ready for RHETORIC, lies, accusations and loads of finger pointing and what will be the conclusion……
same old, same old…..