The camera law promoted by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Likud and which was unanimously approved on Sunday, failed to gain a majority vote of a Knesset committee after a heated discussion on Monday.
The Knesset Arrangements Committee voted against the bill, preventing it from going to a first reading for legislation in the Knesset plenum later in the day, which means that the bill has no hope of becoming law before the elections on September 17, only eight days away.
The bill would have allowed party activists to bring video cameras into polling stations to thwart voter fraud. Netanyahu claimed that without rampant fraud in the Arab community, the Joint Arab list wouldn’t have made it into the current Knesset.
The proposed bill sparked immediate outrage among left-wing politicians, who spewed vitriol on Netanyahu and the Likud party. “The Likud’s proposal to ‘steal the elections’ was passed unanimously,” the Democratic Union stated. “It’s not unexpected of a government comprised of submissive rhinos who obey the orders of that terribly corrupt person from Balfour [Prime Minister’s residence]. We’ll just remind his political partners that [Netanyahu] will soon be gone and you’ll need to look at yourselves in the mirror.”
Blue and White leader MK Yair Lapid said: “There was nobody in this group of cowards who stood up and told Bibi that the camera law is only a racist distraction designed to undermine the law.”
Politicians claimed that the bill was intended to intimidate the Arab community from showing up to vote on election day and attacked the last-minute nature of the bill, proposed only nine days before the elections.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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And but little more rather than a means
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At least to retract and mitigate
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Netanyahu while he has done some decent things in the past it seems staying in office Is an ends
And but little more rather than a means
especially now after his appointment of the perverted albeit temporary Justice minister
At least to retract and mitigate
how come we’re still In his Camp as if there is no alternative in his own party or on the right that is capable
speak to the people on the street they are tired of him and his economic policies as well
How is it that religious sites such as these are so obsessed with Netanyahu