Tel Aviv Chairman Moshe Ya’alon and Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman made it clear this morning (Tuesday) that they will not hold talks with Blue and White Chairman Bnei Gantz on a joint run in the upcoming Knesset elections.
“My son, there is no point in a meeting whose whole purpose is to secure your seat in the next Knesset,” Lieberman wrote on Facebook. “You missed your opportunity to replace Netanyahu. We have 1,300,000 reasons not to believe you.”
Gantz responded to Gantz’s remarks in a similar vein: “The mission and the necessary condition to bring Israel to a safe shore is to send Netanyahu home and defeat the coalition of immunity and corruption. The check will not be in vain. Gantz would do well to announce that he had internalized the lessons of the terrible national crisis, to which he had mistakenly and contrary to all logic led, and would retire from politics. This will facilitate the required connections. The protest will win. “
As you may recall, Gantz last night called on the party leaders in the center-left bloc to “give up their egos and unite.” In a statement to the media, the Defense Minister sharply attacked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, declaring that he was wrong when he entered his government: “This is an emergency. We must not let him dismantle us into party fragments. “That they really will not sit down with Bibi. Come. Let’s meet. We will find the method. We will find the way. We will find what we all have in common. Let us come tomorrow. We will enter the room. We will find solutions. Let us unite – for the good of the country. .
In the shadow of the unflattering polls, in which blue and white are on the verge of a blocking percentage, Ganz clarified: “I am willing to sacrifice a lot, as I have already proven, for Bibi to go. If the ego goes – Bibi will go. Let’s unite – for Bibi to go.”
In a morning interview here Monday, Ganz said that he “intends to sit down with everyone who will agree on this matter, and see what the mechanisms will be that will allow a joint run for the Knesset to be avoided in order to prevent a loss of votes, and so that Netanyahu can eventually be replaced.” The common denominator of all of them. ” He stressed that in any case he does not intend to retire from the race for the Knesset: “If there are no unions – there will be a note of blue and white.”
Meanwhile, former Tourism Minister Assaf Zamir has announced that he will not run in the upcoming Knesset elections. Zamir, who was the first blue-and-white minister to resign, said here: “There are too many players on a very small field. I thought it would be more appropriate to deal with my bloc’s ability to succeed than where I will be. My vision is a center-led party and a left-wing party. “A center headed by Huldai. The differences are minor in light of the challenges facing this camp.” He noted that if there is an election for mayor of Tel Aviv – he will consider running for office.