Livni trying to prevent vote on terrorist release
Political sources who spoke to Arutz Sheva on Friday morning revealed that Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who heads Israel’s negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, has been working to bury a bill that would ban the release of terrorists as a “good-will gesture” to the PA.
Livni apparently fears that the bill would make it harder for her to appease PA leaders, who have repeatedly threatened that there will be no peace agreement with Israel without the release of every terrorist from Israel’s prisons.
A representative from the government secretary’s office reportedly called one of the MKs who initiated the bill and said it would be taken off the table of the ministerial committee for legislation.
Livni is reportedly pressuring Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to join her in trying to put a stop to the bill before it comes to a vote.
Sources in the Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) party expressed outrage at the reports. “If Livni is so eager to free murderers, she’ll have to put it to a democratic vote,” they insisted.
A statement released by the party on Thursday night argued that it is more important to keep terrorist murderers in jail than to keep Livni in the government.Hey guys - you all knew she was in the government when you went into it, and you should have made Netanyahu choose between you and her.... oh... wait... Master Lapid would never have agreed to that.
For those of you who voted Bayit Yehudi, please tell me you won't make that mistake again.
Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, gestures, Jewish Home party, Knesset elections 2013, Naftali Bennett, Palestinian prisoners, Palestinian terrorism, Tzipi Livni, unilateral concessions, Yair Lapid
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