«Israeli» Right-Wing Lawmakers Sign Pledge Not to Join Gantz-led Minority Gov’t

By Staff, Agencies

The Likud-led right-wing bloc in the “Israeli” entity’s Knesset [parliament] has signed a pledge not to join a minority government led by the “Israeli” entity's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's arch-nemesis, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz.

As of Wednesday, 52 out of 55 lawmakers from Likud, Shas, United Torah Judaism and the Jewish Home-National Union alliance vowed to only join a government led by Netanyahu.

This government could come as either a right-wing coalition or a rotational arrangement between Netanyahu and Benny Gantz.

The deal likely to disrupt a scenario where Gantz forms a minority center-left coalition, which would be backed from the outside by the predominantly Arab Joint List and Avigdor Liberman's Yisrael Beiteinu.

Three New Right party lawmakers – Ayelet Shaked, Naftali Bennet and Matan Kahane – refused to sign the document, saying a move like that was “unnecessary”.

Time is running out for Netanyahu to form a government, as the mandate handed to him by the "Israeli" entity's so-called President Reuven Rivlin is set to expire on October 24, with an extension seen as unlikely.

Blue and White's Benny Gantz is expected to take over the responsibility – but neither him nor Netanyahu have been left with a clear-cut path to form a majority government in the wake of September's election.