Tweet of the Day

רואה פה כמה שמאלנים שמדברים על תיקו.
התבלבלתם.
זו מדינה יהודית.
בשאלות הרות גורל על עתיד העם והארץ לא הגיוני שיחליטו אנשים שמצהירים שהם בצד של אויבנו.
רוב יהודי גדול בחר פה בממשלת ימין בצורה מובהקת.
אתם מוזמנים לשבת על ספסלי האופוזיציה יחד עם המיעוט הערבי שתמיד יישאר שם.

— יהודה ולד (@yehodavald) March 4, 2020

Translation:

(Yehuda Vold is the Director of the Ichud Haleumi political party, one of the factions of Yamina/Habayit Hayehudi)

I see some leftists talking about a tie.

you are confused

this is a Jewish country.

On such critical questions regarding the future of the nation and the land, it is not reasonable that people who say they are on the side of our enemies should be making decisions.

A large Jewish majority chose the right wing government in a clear way.

You are invited to sit on the benches of the Opposition together with the Arab minority that will always remain there.

הכרעת העם ברורה: 58 מנדטים למחנה הציוני-ימני ו-47 מנדטים למחנה הציוני-שמאלני. אזרחי ישראל נתנו לי קולות יותר מלכל מועמד אחר בתולדות המדינה. גנץ מנסה לגנוב את הבחירות - אנחנו לא ניתן לזה לקרות! pic.twitter.com/ocRzlOCFq6

— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) March 4, 2020

Translation
Netanyahu tweeted:
The decision of the nation is clear: 58 mandates for the Zionist-Right camp, and 47 mandates for the Zionist-Left camp. The citizens of Israel gave me the greatest differential of votes over another candidate in the history of the state. Gantz is trying to steal the elections - we will not allow it to happen!


Sorry, but that is not how the Knesset or democracy works. If you are giving the Arabs the right to vote and to be elected, that means you are including them in the decision making process. You can't just say they have no right to use their democratic power and rights because they are not Jews. Until now we have used the fact that Arabs vote and can be elected to government as proof that Israel is not an apartheid state. Now they want to go down the path of saying that they can get elected but they cant have any influence, basically saying their election is just for show - this will definitely turn Israel into an apartheid state and kill our argument against.

Perhaps Vald simply wants to get Ichud Leumi banned from the next elections just like Baruch Marzel and Michael Ben Ari were.

And Netanyahu is also discounting their votes and voices. If you think they don't have a right to have influence, just take away their right to vote and to be elected. Nobody is stealing anything - you think you won the election, go ahead and form a coalition. After arguing for the past year that the bloc is what is important and not the number of seats an individual party received, Netanyahu is now saying that the number of seats he won over Gantz is what makes this decisive. It does not. He still has to form a coalition - go ahead and form it. Nobody is stopping you from doing so.  If he really believes his argument, he should enact electoral reform and reform fo the governmental system and switch Israel from a parliamentary system to a presidential system - then the number of votes he wins more than his opponent will be what counts.

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