Bayit Yehudi Yoni Chetboun, a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs Committee, speaking at the demonstration taking place outside the PM's office, called for his party to consider leaving the coalition if the proposal to free terrorists is passed.
He said: "An Israeli government that frees such terrorists, gives in to terror and turns its back on bereaved families, is not the place for the Bayit Yehudi party. A government that abandons its principles so quickly just to begin negotiations will not hesitate to uproot communities either."
He praised Bayit Yehudi head Naphtali Bennett for opposing the proposal, but said that "freeing terrorist murderers of Jews is a red line and a march of evil that must be stopped in its tracks, or every Palestinian Arab mother will know that there is nothing to worry about if her son is arrested, he will soon be freed by someone."At this point, Bayit Yehudi leaving the coalition would be meaningless because they would simply be replaced by the Labor party, which has the same number of seats, which would have no qualms about releasing terrorists, and which would have no qualms about expelling thousands of Jews from their homes.
Of course, if the Haredim were in the coalition instead of Yesh Atid, there would be very little chance that this sort of terrorist release would pass.
Supporter of the land of Israel: Aren't you glad you wasted your vote on the political neophyte Naftali Bennett? What could go wrong?
I disagree with you that the Hareidi parties would oppose terrorist releases. Who enabled Oslo and other "peace" agreements? Shas and UTJ. Netanyahu would offer them more money for their yeshivos and they woulld agree with whatever he said. The problem is not that Bayit Yehudi made an agreement with Yesh Atid.
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