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Otzma Yehudit announces that coalition negotiations have been stopped after Likud refused to give it the Ministry for the Development of the Negev and the Galilee

By: Hezki Baruch

The Otzma Yehudit Party announced on Sunday evening that the coalition talks with the Likud have been terminated.

“Contrary to the earlier agreement, the Likud retracted and now refuses to give the additional minister – for the Development of the Periphery, the Negev and the Galilee – to Otzma Yehudit,” senior party officials said.

“Strengthening the Negev, the Galilee and the periphery is our election promise, and we were elected to fulfill the election promises, not to look for jobs, but to take care of the residents of Be’er Sheva, Netivot, Ashkelon, and Sderot as well as the periphery of the Galilee – this is in our hearts,” they added.

Earlier on Sunday evening, Channel 13 News reported that the Religious Zionist Party is demanding that the Likud include in the coalition agreement a provision for promoting Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.

According to the report, the Religious Zionist Party is conditioning its support for a future government led by Benjamin Netanyahu in part on the Likud’s willingness to include a clause in the coalition agreement obligating the new government to take steps to apply Israeli sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria.

The Likud, however, is reportedly refusing to commit to any steps towards applying sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria in the next government, leaving the two sides deadlocked.

Meanwhile, Religious Zionist party chairman MK Bezalel Smotrich took to Twitter to respond to users who have attacked him in an attempt to cause him to back down from his demands.

“People can’t make us the enemy, incite against, and slander us every time we don’t stand at attention to the Likud’s demands. Religious Zionism is a partner of the nationalist camp and the Likud,” wrote Smotrich.

“We will keep to our demands so we can ensure the quick formation of a good and sturdy government that will do good and lead a truly right-wing policy,” he added.

In other news, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the spokesman for Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas, criticized Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu who said at the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) conference on Saturday night, “The Palestinians do not want peace, they do not want a state alongside Israel, they want a state instead of Israel.”

Abbas’s spokesman called Netanyahu’s words “a clear attempt to mislead world opinion.”

Netanyahu’s words, he said, “expose his true intentions to evade any political process that will lead to the end of the occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital in accordance with international legitimacy decisions.”

Abu Rudeineh also said, “The Netanyahu government, which will include Itamar Ben Gvir who led the settler attacks on residents in Hebron last night, foreshadows what will happen in the near future under an extreme right-wing Israeli government.”

“This right-wing government will be responsible for the deterioration of the situation and the instability, and that is why Netanyahu twisted the facts, because they know what will happen from the very existence of such a government that includes extremists like Ben Gvir and Smotrich,” charged Abu Rudeineh.

He warned against “the continued invasion of extremist Jews into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the danger inherent in any attempt to change the existing historical situation at the holy site (Temple Mount)”.

(IsraelNationalNews.com)

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