Change bloc splitting as Liberman breaks ranks — Tzror

Veteran broadcaster Rino Tzror has launched a sharp attack on Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman over his independent moves in coalition talks, warning that the opposition "change bloc" is fracturing and may lose its chance at power.

"The mandate is in Gadi Eisenkot's hands, and his path. With all its twists, we have never known such twists," Tzror wrote. "If the change bloc splits, and it is splitting, it will be many times harder to reach the ultimate goal, the premiership."

Tzror recalled the bloc leaders' promises to voters during the election campaign and leveled sharp criticism at what he described as a breach of trust by Liberman through his separate moves toward the haredi parties.

"The biggest promise the change-bloc party leaders made to their voters, before the haredim and before the Arabs and before the overhaul laws, was that they knew how to close everything among themselves five minutes after the election and that there would be no problem," the veteran journalist wrote.

"Avigdor Liberman is not beginning to keep that promise, that promise either, apart from everything else," Tzror added. "The fact that he has begun to take a separate track and entered into personal negotiations with the haredim speaks volumes. This is where it stings. And all this when the mandate is in Eisenkot's hands, a minute before the swearing-in of Knesset members and two minutes before the appointment of the new speaker."