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Jan 26, 2025

the strange situation of Ben Gvir

This situation with Otzma Yehudit is strange and probably unprecedented.

Otzma Yehudit recently left the coalition government due to serious disagreement with the hostage deal approved and signed by the coalition. Otzma Yehudit consider it dangerous and did not find a compromise the way Hatzionut Hadatit did to stay in government.

Despite considering the deal made by the government dangerous, so much so that they left the coalition over it, they still have committed to doing what they can to avoid bringing down the government and to support it as much as possible. They are probably even supporting it more now than when they were in the government and repeatedly voted against the government position on various items, even nearly bringing down the government over the budget vote.

And now working out a deal for Almog Cohen to vote with the Coalition, and working on a deal with Kroizer so he doent get kicked out of the Knesset (Korizer is in the Knesset due to the Norwegian law and Smotritch might pull a fast one to resign, go back to Knesset kicking Kroizer out and then getting sworn in again as Minister) has them leaving the coalition but finding creative ways to commit to supporting it despite disagreeing severely with Coalition moves.

I get what he is doing, trying not to bring down a right wing government while not wanting to be a part of their decisions, and trying to not upset the coalition too much so when they want to rejoin they will not have burned too many bridges, but it is still strange. They disagree so badly with the decisions of the government that they dont want to be part of it but support it from the outside. Very strange situation.



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