Yair Netanyahu Urges Winter List Candidates to Unite Right-Wing Votes to Avoid Splitting
Translated & summarized from Arutz Sheva by baba
Yair Netanyahu warned candidates of the new Amcha Israel party that running separately risks splitting the right-wing vote and enabling a left-wing government. Prime Minister Netanyahu also criticized the party, urging its leaders to unite with existing right-wing factions to avoid harming their political bloc.
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- Yair Netanyahu warns Amcha Israel candidates that splitting right-wing votes will help the left-wing form a government.
- He outlines three scenarios where their independent run harms the right-wing bloc mathematically.
- Benjamin Netanyahu calls the new party a national problem, not a personal one.
- Netanyahu urges Winter, Maoz, and Feiglin to unite or withdraw to protect the right-wing.
- Yair Netanyahu compares the potential damage to the historical Resurrection Party's role in enabling the Oslo Accords.
- The warnings come shortly after the official launch of the Amcha Israel party and its Knesset list.
Following the official announcement of the new party "Amcha Israel" and its Knesset candidates, Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, addressed the candidates directly on social media. He warned them against splitting the right-wing vote, which he argued would only benefit the left-wing camp. Yair Netanyahu outlined three possible outcomes if the candidates run independently without uniting with Bezalel Smotrich's faction: failing to pass the electoral threshold and wasting right-wing votes, passing the threshold but causing Smotrich to fall below it, or both failing to pass the threshold, all of which would lead to the formation of a government led by Benny Gantz, Yair Golan, and Mansour Abbas. He emphasized that mathematically, no other scenario exists and compared the potential damage to the historical example of the "Resurrection Party" that helped bring about the Rabin government and the Oslo Accords.
Earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself criticized the new party led by Winter, stating he had no personal issue with him but framed it as a national problem. He warned that if Winter's party passes the threshold, it could cause other right-wing parties to lose seats. Netanyahu called on Winter, Avi Maoz, and Moshe Feiglin to take responsibility for the right-wing bloc's fate, urging them to either withdraw or unite with existing parties to protect the national camp and the State of Israel.
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