Gantz urges Arab Islamist leader Abbas to help unseat Netanyahu

• Date: 30 March 2021
• Author: GIL HOFFMAN
• Published date: 30 March 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Abbas holds the key to deciding who will build the next coalition because his four seats could grant a majority either to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or one of his political opponents.

"The only way to avoid [Netanyahu remaining in power] is forming an honest government without Netanyahu and appointing a Knesset speaker agreed upon by the entire change camp." Gantz wrote on Facebook. "All this must be done quickly, because while we are arguing, Bibi is working."

Gantz warned Abbas and Yamina leader Naftali Bennet that Netanyahu is "using them." He said that it could be possible for Netanyahu to form a...