As Knesset Prepares to Topple Bennett Government, Shaked May Have Readied a Lifeboat
(Worthy News) – Sources close to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett have denounced Interior Minister and Bennett’s political partner and ally for more than a decade Ayelet Shaked, saying she is “heating up the situation with her announcement about the Temple Mount and her blessing for convening a planning council to discuss settlement construction.” According to those sources, cited Sunday morning by Reshet Bet radio, “Shaked sticks fingers in the eye of our coalition partners, and if she continues like this, this coming Knesset session will end right when it starts.”
On Independence Day Thursday, Minister Shaked announced: “Jews on the Temple Mount even on Independence Day, after an all-time record in the number of ascents to Temple Mount this year had been broken.”
That didn’t go over well with Israeli Arabs, both inside the fragile coalition government and in the opposition. Members of the Shura Council of the Islamic Movement are threatening to resign if MK Mansour Abbas’ Ra’am party does not withdraw for good from the coalition in response to the renewed entry of Jewish worshipers into the Temple Mount compound. Last month, in response to police putting down vicious Arab riots on the Temple Mount, Ra’am announced it was suspending its membership in the coalition as an interim solution towards its possible withdrawal and the overthrow of the government. [ Source: Jewish World News (Read More…) ]