The infighting within Gadi Eisenkot’s bloc escalated Sunday, as Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman fired back at Democrats leader Yair Golan.
The clash began after Channel 13 political correspondent Michael Shemesh reported that Liberman is blocking efforts to repeal the judicial overhaul laws for now. According to the report, Liberman told his partners he would not support moving ahead with the repeal at this stage, and that the bloc should first focus on other parliamentary steps.
Golan responded sharply: “If Liberman wants a government that won’t draft chareidim and won’t repeal the overhaul laws, he is welcome to form a government with Netanyahu.”
Liberman didn’t name Golan, but his reply was clearly aimed at him. “A world of stupidity and malice,” he said. “Even before the election campaign ended, I said the new Knesset must act immediately to replace the Knesset speaker, appoint a state comptroller, pass a law limiting the prime minister to two terms, and only then repeal the judicial overhaul laws.
“That is the correct order of priorities. Anyone who proposes a different order of priorities is simply an idiot.”
