Bezalel Smotrich: 'When the Left is in the government, it sets the tone'

• Author: Arutz Sheva Staff
• Published date: 01 March 2021
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

Speaking with Israel Hayom, Smotrich wondered aloud how it is that two-thirds of the Israeli public votes right-wing, but polls show that the new government will be leftist.

"When the Left is a partner in the government, it sets the tone," he said. "That is why I left [MK Naftali] Bennett (Yamina), who because of personal embarrassments chose to go to the Left."

"So because [Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu isn't managing the coronavirus pandemic well enough, we should go with the Left and let it set the tone? He said that he will form a government with [New Hope's Gideon] Sa'ar, [Yesh Atid's Yair] Lapid, [MK] Merav Michaeli (Labor), and [MK Nitzan] Horowitz (Meretz) - there is no goal more important than this right now."

Slamming Yisrael Beytenu Chairman MK Avigdor Liberman, who said that he joined the Left in order to settle accounts, Smotrich said, "He, like two or three other parties, will bring the Left, which had almost disappeared, back into the government, instead of manifesting the right-wing majority among the...