In an interview with Ynet, Shas party leader Aryeh Deri was asked if he is angry at Eli Yishai.
Deri:
Yes, I am angry for he was given the party to run for 13 years. He educated followers to continue in the path of Maran and to adhere to the Moetzas Gedolei Torah and then he broke away, betraying his own teachings. I am angry over the damage. Nothing here is personal.
Ynet:
Are you willing to call him back, to work with him side by side?
Deri:
At the election rally I called on everyone who left to return and that includes Eli Yishai. Once again, it is not personal. It is about a mission and a shlichus. He can sit on my right side or left side it does not matter. Whatever the rabbonim decide I will abide by for that is how it works. It is not personal. If I did what I wanted personally I would go home and I would not be here.
Ynet:
Will you sit with any party?
Deri:
I do not disqualify any democratically elected party. If we can find a common ground and a working relationship why not. Shas does not rule out entering into a coalition with any party.
Ynet:
What about Yair Lapid? Lapid announced you and he have made up.
Deri:
Why not, if we can find common ground. He and I speak. It is not personal but the path he has chosen. We reached an agreement and speak. We do not agree on values and the derech but if he continues what he did in Knesset, I do not want to say a hate campaign but he has to change direction. Once again if I attack him it is his derech, not him personally.
Ynet:
What about the induction law?
Deri:
There is the matter of criminal sanctions which will not benefit anyone as Defense Minister Ya’alon and others said. We can reach an understanding on most things including the status quo. If I am not mistaken both the prime minister and Yitzchak Herzog said they will eliminate the sanctions.
I believe we can reach understanding on these issues. What worries me is the lower class, which is ignored by everyone without exception. Some worry about the middle class and some the upper class but the lower class, the poor have been forgotten.
Lapid told Ynet that he is not ruling out entering a coalition with the chareidi parties for as long as the chareidi draft law is not revoked.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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8 Responses
Bob was right!
It’s sick out there and getting sicker!
will he sell out and give away all of OUR land?
I am waiting for someone to step forward and tell me just what are the key issues that are dividing up the chareidi parties. For example, just what are the points that caused Shas to split?
1. A coalition might agree to drop penal sanctions for conscription refusal.
2. A left wing “anyone but Likud” coalition that includes the Arabs and Meretz would have no problem either ending conscription altogether, or alternatively agreeing to ban sanctions for conscription refusal since their supporters don’t want to be in the army either.
3. Lapid is desperate to be in the coalition, and in any event, if the exemption from military service extends to left-wing and Arab opponents, or involves ending conscription altogether, Lapid will have no problem going along with it. If Yesh Atid spends the next kenesset in opposition, it will probably disappear .
It’s all politics. Lapid can’t be trusted as Netanyahu discovered so why discuss working with him?
If anyone is a traitor to $has, it is Deri. Take a look a Rav Yosef’s personal opinion of Deri, not given under duress. He called Deri, unreliable, and a rasha. He called Yishai a person who he can trust.
Simple, but why Sfardim don’t understand what Rav Yosef said is the truth!?
To #2:
It is not ‘selling out’ to have different priorities than you. I may not agree with Deri, may not trust him and am not going to vote for him, but it’s perfectly fine in politics to find a working arrangement with another party — even a party that one has strong disagreements with.
Deri is focusing on the poor in this campaign — and I say all the power to him. I’m 100% behind him on that move and focus and wish him much success in helping all the poor of Israel. Deri’s position is that he is willing to work with other parties so long as the social and Torah issues that are fundamental to Shas are taken care of.
What is wrong with that? Because you don’t like the fact that he’s willing to sit with parties that neither you (or I for that matter) want to see in power? Who says that Deri has to prioritize land over the poor or the Torah institutions that Deri wants to support?
It’s all Political hype…. Poor, social programs, etc,,,look at his past record. He did not vote for poor & needy or southern communities in the past.