MK Gadi Eisnkot’s Yashar party announced Tuesday that it had scheduled a preliminary meeting with Likud to discuss coalition negotiations.
However, following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “divisive” speech at the Knesset, the meetings were canceled.
ישבתי והקשבתי לנאום ההזוי, המפלג, מלא השנאה והמביש של ראש הממשלה היוצא, שניצל לרעה אירוע ממלכתי בהשבעת הכנסת ה-26. השתכנעתי עוד יותר שהוא אינו כשיר להמשיך ולו דקה נוספת בתפקיד. עלינו לפעול בדחיפות להקמת ממשלת חירום לאומית. המשך שלטונו מפלג את ישראל ומסכן את בטחונה. @yairlapid @YairGolan1 @AvigdorLiberman @naftalibennett – זה עלינו.
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“Following Yashar’s appeal to all Knesset factions to conduct sincere and genuine negotiations based on the four principles set out by Yashar for forming a government, a negotiation meeting was scheduled for tomorrow between the Eisenkot team and Likud,” the party’s statement read.
“Against the backdrop of the outgoing prime minister’s divisive speech and his disgraceful conduct at the Knesset swearing-in ceremony, which dishonored what remains of statesmanship under Netanyahu’s rule, Yashar chairman Gadi Eisenkot has now instructed that the negotiation meeting planned for tomorrow with Likud representatives be canceled.”
Netanyahu continues to push for unity government
The revelation of unity talks and their subsequent collapse came after Netanyahu’s call on Monday for opposition leaders to join him in a single unified government in “the need of the hour.”
Tuesday’s Knesset speech, which Eisenkot called “delusional, divisive, hateful, and disgraceful,” also pressed for a unity government in the face of an Iranian nuclear threat, which the prime minister insisted must be destroyed.
Yashar: Unity, solidarity vital for Israel, but Netanyahu chooses himself
The Yashar statement claimed that Netanyahu continued to choose to divide Israeli citizens instead of looking to negotiate.
“The outgoing prime minister lashed out at Israeli citizens this evening in what became yet another sad reminder, for anyone who needed further proof: Netanyahu does not want unity,” the party stated.
“As always, when faced with a choice between the gravity of the moment and the resilience of Israeli society on one hand, and his political survival on the other, Netanyahu will always choose himself. At any cost.”
Likud responds: Yashar pursues coalition with Arabs while canceling unity talks
The Likud party issued a response, saying that Netanyahu will “turn over every stone to achieve national unity,” and that “Likud is willing to meet with representatives of any faction that desires unity.
Likud called it “puzzling” that opposition parties, led by Eisenkot, canceled a scheduled meeting with Likud while continuing to advance negotiations with Arab parties, which walked out during the national anthem, immediately following the Knesset swear-in.
Netanyahu remains committed to working towards the establishment of a national unity government, the statement concluded.
