Last night, Minister Zeev Elkin surprised the political system by announcing his departure from the Likud, his resignation from the Knesset and joining the “New Hope” party led by Gideon Saar, when he sharply criticized Prime Minister Netanyahu. This morning (Thursday), MK Uzi Dayan from the Likud spoke with Nissim Mash’al and Guy Peleg on 103FM about his feelings for the Likud after the move.
what are you saying?
“Unpleasant not terrible. Elkin also contradicts his words, where have you been so far? You have been there in the center of things, and I will tell you, Elkin is not worth three seats.”
We said no, but maybe the feeling of disgust with Netanyahu is worth three seats?
“Even when he says these things, there is indeed a fierce struggle here and we are ready for it. The Likud has not lost the election for a long time.”
This is a testimony from the house that the Prime Minister is dragging into the election for personal reasons, this is a serious person.
“For Elkin, egoism has overcome seriousness because it contradicts things it said before. It’s an election, one thing I totally agree with, an illusory election, but it’s pointing the finger at the wrong place, and I think what’s happening as a trend is that blue and white are starting. A process of political suicide. “
Will more people cross the line?
“It is a fear that it always exists in such a system, and especially in people with whom everything is personal, but on such a morning I actually take an example from ideological people, not egoists.”
Why selfish about Elkin? Because he told the truth?
“Because I look at all Elkin’s aides this morning, who also immediately announced that they were surprised, but mostly that they were staying in the Likud and not going anywhere with him.”
Are you undecided?
“You’re talking to a person … if you’re in the Dayan family and you’m only married once it shows what loyalty is.”
Moshe Dayan in 1977 left the Labor Party and went to Menachem Begin and joined his government.
“Let’s go to the end, Moshe Dayan left after they left him.”
They did not leave him, he got up and left after a meeting with Begin and went on to become foreign minister in his government.
“I claim that they left him, I am from the family. He went for peace with Egypt, and I should not move from work to the Likud.”
The feeling this morning from what you hear in the Likud, a hard feeling? Did you get to talk to people close to the Prime Minister or did he himself appear agitated yesterday?
“I got to talk to the prime minister at night, I don’t need associates. “This is an unpleasant and not terrible situation. We must remember that the Prime Minister dealt at all with the question of what to do with the corona, how to proceed with the normalization process, Iran’s affairs.”
Did not move him? Not excited?
“Of course I did not say such a thing. We are ready and ready for such a campaign, the most important thing you said this morning is election 5. It shows how on the one hand these elections are unnecessary and not because of us or our fault, if we go to elections 5-4 I urge people to vote by order but For an ideology with a way, with justice, with a tradition, and not ‘everything is personal, everything is selfish’ “.