After Benny Gantz dismissed reports last week regarding a compromise surrounding the judicial reform, today (Sunday), Opposition Leader Yair Lapid addressed the issue for the first time at the annual Social Justice Conference of the Centers for Social Justice: "The goal of the compromise is to arrange a meeting for Netanyahu at the White House."
Lapid commented on the compromise reports, saying, "I haven't responded to the compromise plan presented last week, and not by accident. Already a month ago, I told my colleagues a few days before the High Court hearings and before Netanyahu's trip to the United States, 'Suddenly, a compromise proposal will emerge that will seem to be too good to be true.'
"You should know that it is indeed not genuine. Its purpose will not be to reach an agreement, but rather to arrange a meeting for Netanyahu in the White House and, above all, to raise difficulties for the judges of the Supreme Court while they are deliberating on the appeals. The farce of the past week has proven that it would have been better to heed this warning. Nevertheless, we must continue to make every effort to prevent the rift within the people of Israel."
Lapid: "At the time, the coalition rejected the idea outright"
"Distinguishing from the Prime Minister and his ministers," said Lapid, "we have a national responsibility for the fate of this country. What we need to do is what I proposed immediately after the vote on the reduction of the Clause of Reasonability: after the deliberations in the Supreme Court, we should go into an 18-month freeze on legislation related to the regime change. Such a freeze should be preserved by law."
"I presented a bill proposal to the President," claimed Yesh Atid's leader, "which was drafted by Prof. Suzie Navot, stating that any change related to the democratic foundations of the Israeli regime can only be made with broad agreement between the coalition and the opposition. The coalition rejected the idea at the time, but the proposal for an 18-month freeze now also appears in the reported compromise, so it seems that even in the government, there are those who understand that this is the right thing to do."
