Bayit Yehudi leader Minister Naftali Bennett is working to enlist support for a bill that would demand a national referendum to approve a peace agreement between Israel and the PA (Palestinian Authority).
Bennett has already approached his Knesset partner, Finance Minister Yair Lapid who head Yesh Atid, with the latter indicating he would bring it up for discussion in the party faction. Bennett is aware that without Lapid coming on board he will not have a chance of pushing through such a bill. It is already clear that not everyone in Lapid’s party supports such a move, with some viewing it as a right-wing effort to torpedo any major deal with the PA.
Bennett explains this is not so, but a national referendum would prevent a major split in the nation. Such a law would also permit Bennett and his colleagues to remain in the government upon reaching such a deal, which would then require a majority in a national referendum to be ratified.
Most feel Yesh Atid is unlikely to support the Bayit Yehudi initiative as Yair Lapid is a supporter of the two state solution and the bill would only serve to hinder such efforts.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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The chasm within the parties is starting to widen…
Right, left, up, down, sideways, backwards, upside down, or inside out. When will some of these idiots in the Israeli government realize that the only way the towel heads will every come to a peace table will be when we, Israel, set back to the 1967 borders and give them the whole store, not just a shelf.
Forget peace as you dream it mister politician. The only peace the radical rag heads want is when they see all the Jews of Israel DEAD.
Wake up. They will never come to the table without pre-conditions and those pre-conditions will kills us all.
STOP HELPING THEM.
I don’t get it, what does “national referendum” mean?
The majority of the public decides. Not the politicians. This is at least the theory. In practice the left wing media would brainwash the public to achieve their goals