Yair Netanyahu Urges Right-Wing Unity to Prevent Left-Wing Government
Translated & summarized from Kikar HaShabbat by baba
Yair Netanyahu urges right-wing Israeli parties to unite before elections to avoid splitting votes and enabling a left-wing government led by Avigdor Lieberman. He warns that personal rivalries should not prevent forming technical blocs, citing past failures that led to left-wing rule. His social media campaign targets leaders like Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, emphasizing the risk of wasted votes and a left-wing coalition if unity fails.
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- Yair Netanyahu warns right-wing vote splitting could lead to a left-wing government under Lieberman.
- He urges Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir to form a technical bloc despite personal differences.
- He dismisses polls showing small right-wing parties passing the threshold as unrealistic and harmful.
- Netanyahu criticizes Ofer Winter's new party for aligning with Lieberman and left-wing media.
- He cites 1992 election fragmentation as a cautionary example leading to Rabin's government.
- Netanyahu stresses technical alliances can dissolve post-election but are vital now to prevent left-wing rule.
Yair Netanyahu, son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has launched a series of sharp social media posts urging right-wing parties to unite ahead of the upcoming elections. He warned that splitting the right-wing vote could lead to a left-wing government, specifically predicting that former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman might be recommended to form a government. Yair Netanyahu emphasized the importance of technical blocs among right-wing factions, even if the leaders personally dislike each other, to avoid losing tens of thousands of votes.
He directly addressed right-wing leaders Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, urging them to unite despite personal differences. He cautioned that failure to do so risks enabling a coalition including Lieberman, former IDF generals Yair Golan and Gadi Eizenkot, and others, which he described as a government of "Muslim Brotherhood" elements. Netanyahu also criticized the new party led by former general Ofer Winter, accusing it of aligning with Lieberman and the left-wing newspaper Haaretz.
Responding to a poll showing the "Noam LeYisrael" party surpassing the electoral threshold, Yair Netanyahu dismissed it as unrealistic and warned that votes for such parties could be wasted and ultimately help left-wing or Arab parties form a government. He cited past examples where right-wing fragmentation led to left-wing governments, including the 1992 election that brought Yitzhak Rabin to power and the Oslo Accords.
Yair Netanyahu's active social media campaign aims to pressure right-wing factions to finalize unified lists before the election registration deadline, emphasizing that any technical alliances could dissolve after the elections. His interventions reflect ongoing tensions within the right-wing camp as they seek to maximize their electoral strength and prevent a left-wing coalition from taking power.
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