Chairman of the Yisrael Beitenu party MK Avigdor Lieberman, who is blamed by many for leading the nation to a third round of Knesset elections, continues his inciteful statements against the chareidi tzibur.

In his latest statement, made on Wednesday morning, the chareidim are blamed “for endangering the Zionist vision due to their cooperation with the Arabs”. This comes after Lieberman was accused by Likud of not ruling out entering into a minority government with Blue & White, supported from the opposition by the Joint Arab List.

In the Facebook video, Lieberman explains the Arabs accused the IDF of war crimes during fighting and boycotted the funeral of President Shimon Peres while visiting the grave of Yasser Arafat, rejecting allegations that he would rely on the Joint Arab List to form a minority government. In other recent statements, Lieberman has referred to the Joint Arab List as a “fifth column infiltrating Israel.”

In a Wednesday morning Facebook post entitled the “Anti-Zionist Alliance”, Lieberman pointed out that during a session of the Knesset Finance Committee on Tuesday, before a vote dealing with budgeting for the Arab sector, MK Dr. Ahmed Tibi said, “I call on my good friends from Shas to join us [in the vote]”.

At that point, MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Yaakov Asher got up and said, “just Shas?”, to which Tibi responded “you are good friends too, from before yesterday.”

Lieberman accuses the chareidi parties of working with the Arab legislators, the “anti-Zionists” as he refers to them, the Joint Arab List, Shas and Yahadut Hatorah as they assist one another on matters of religion and state, IDF induction and more, in Lieberman’s words, “threatening the Zionist vision of Herzl”.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)