Deri Told Journalist Left Would Grant Haredi Draft Demands for Political Partnership
Translated & summarized from JDN by baba
Journalist Avishai Greenzeig revealed a conversation with Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri, who claimed left-wing parties would meet Haredi conscription demands for political partnership. Deri believed leftists would compromise but that their public would oppose it, calling Greenzeig naive. The report coincides with Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman's openness to compromise on the conscription law for government formation.
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- Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri told a journalist left-wing parties would meet Haredi draft demands for partnership.
- Deri claimed leftists would compromise on conscription but their public would oppose it.
- The report follows Avigdor Lieberman's statement on willingness to compromise on the draft law.
- Deri called the journalist naive regarding his doubts about the left's willingness to compromise.
- United Torah Judaism MK Yaakov Asher lamented past lack of flexibility on the issue.
Journalist Avishai Greenzeig revealed on Friday a conversation he had several months ago with Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri, during which Deri stated that left-wing parties would agree to Haredi demands regarding military conscription in exchange for political partnership. The report emerges amid a statement by Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman expressing readiness to compromise on the conscription law to form a government.
According to Greenzeig, Deri made these remarks during an extensive discussion. "If we go with the left, we will get everything we want. It's all a bluff on their part to bring down the right," Deri was quoted as saying by Greenzeig. "We can get a conscription law if we go with the other side, but we have a responsibility to the people of Israel, which is why we are going with the right."
Greenzeig expressed disbelief, to which Deri responded, "What are you saying? You are naive. These guys were my friends. I know the leftists. They will sell everything when needed." The journalist clarified that his doubt concerned the reaction of voters, not the politicians' willingness to compromise. "Forget the politicians and the professional protesters. I'm not arguing about that. The public, in my opinion, will not be with them. Their public will not allow it to happen because it is in their soul," Deri reportedly said.
Deri concluded the exchange by telling Greenzeig, "You are wrong and naive." The report follows Lieberman's recent declaration that beyond his conditions for forming a government, "on all other issues, it is permissible and desirable to be flexible and compromise," including the conscription law. United Torah Judaism MK Yaakov Asher commented on the political discourse, stating, "It hurts to think how much incitement and fratricide could have been avoided if the same flexibility had been shown in recent years."
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