The Jewish Power Party this evening (Saturday) released a video showing the “Torch Government of Dreams” in which members Bennett and Saar joined the joint list and a number of candidates in the Labor Party, Abtissam Maraana, who was presented as a supporter of Hitler. Around Smutrich it is said that the video came out without coordination.
Sources with Jewish power claim that although according to the agreement with Smutrich these are two separate campaigns, the director of Smutrich’s campaign saw the video in advance. Religious Zionism, on the other hand, says that no one at the headquarters of Religious Zionism received the video in advance. The video is not compatible or approved through the election headquarters and a clarification is currently being made on the subject.
We have no intention of being dragged into the populism that the media is trying to produce. I appreciate his many rights to Naftali Bennett and God forbid he does not think he is like Lapid and Meretz, but at the same time we have not yet heard a right-wing commitment not to sit in government with Lapid and the support of terrorists from the common and the job nominated No. 7 despises the memory of the Holocaust and our soldiers. https://t.co/8WjZ1aDNnX
– Itamar Ben Gvir (@itamarbengvir) February 20, 2021
The chairman of the Religious Zionist Party, MK Bezalel Smutrich: “The video that was distributed tonight without our knowledge is very serious. As a third generation of survivors, the Holocaust is out of bounds. Point. We have a sharp debate with Bennett who refuses to commit to a right-wing government. “Lapid and Merav Michaeli, but this debate needs to be conducted within very clear boundaries. The use of Hitler and the Holocaust is beyond the bounds of discourse. Dot.”
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There is no limit to the abomination of Ben Gvir and Smutrich. Ghetto, Holocaust, Hitler, Samir Kunter, everything is allowed in the name of racism and extremism. Shame and shame also for Netanyahu who is doing everything to bring these extremists into the Knesset of Israel.
– Yair Lapid – Yair Lapid (@yairlapid) February 20, 202
The Labor Party said: “Netanyahu’s connection to Ben Gvir has spawned a disgusting video showing affection for the Nazi oppressor. Anyone who goes to bed with a group of racists will not be surprised that he wakes up with antisemitic plots. That he is a distributor. “
Bennett also responded and attacked Smutrich. Smutrich replied:
Naftali,
I have already made it clear that the video is serious and that I am not behind it.
A spin that you celebrate on this evening and make a round. Have fun.
Now let’s talk about essence and values:
Do you promise your voters to sit only in the right-wing government or does he not deny a seat in the center-left government with Lapid, Lieberman and Meirav Michaeli? >>> pic.twitter.com/UriLGi6aLH– Bezalel Smutrich (@bezalelsm) February 20, 2021