Jewish Home party to leave coalition?
A Bayit Yehudi party source said Tuesday that seven of the party's 12 MKs think the faction should leave the coalition if the government agrees to free 400 prisoners, even if Pollard is also freed as party of the deal.
A right-wing senior minister who was supposed to meet with Almagor Terror Victims Organization chief Meir Indor on Tuesday canceled the meeting citing a coalition crisis over the deal as the reason.
Construction and Housing Minister Uri Ariel of Bayit Yehudi said on Tuesday he would oppose any such accord that would see Pollard go free in exchange for the release of more Palestinian prisoners, telling Army Radio that Pollard himself was against being part of a prisoner exchange.
"I was personally told he is against being released in such a disgraceful deal," said Ariel, arguing that Pollard deserved unconditional freedom and not to be swapped for Palestinian "murderers."I doubt that the Jewish Home party will leave the coalition - Bennett and Shaked are too rooted to their government seats to allow that to happen. A faction of MK's - maybe even seven - could break off and form a new party outside the government (I think that's still allowed - you need at least a third of the faction).
But that wouldn't bring down the government. The real question here is how many Likud-Beiteinu MK's - if any - would leave the government over this. There are only two MK's from among the Likud who are on record as favoring a two-state solution: Binyamin Netanyahu and Tzachi HaNegbi. Will the others have the courage to jeopardize their careers by walking out?
Don't hold your breath.
Labels: Ayelet Shaked, Binyamin Netanyahu, Jewish Home party, Jonathan Pollard, Likud party, Naftali Bennett, Palestinian terrorists, settlement freeze
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:37 PM
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There's Moshe Feiglin...
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