Yamina head Naftali Bennett: My government will care for all its citizens

• Published date: 15 March 2021
• Date: 15 March 2021
• Author: Arutz Sheva Staff

"On my way here, I heard Netanyahu was demanding me to promise [not to sit in a government headed by Lapid]. Imagine - Netanyahu demanding someone else to promise something before elections have taken place, he quipped.

"This is the same Netanyahu who swore he'd dismantle Khan al Ahmar and today it's already a small city, the same Netanyahu who swore time and time again, just prior to Election Day to, 'apply sovereignty to Judea and Samaria. Then, once Netanyahu was elected, he threw the National Union party under the bus, and chose to sit with [Ehud] Barak instead. And it's the same Netanyahu who vowed to 'no matter what fulfill his promise to a rotational government with Benny Gantz.'"

"I have to admit that hearing the word 'commitment' from Netanyahu is a bit like inaugurating [controversial scientist] Yoram Les as the Corona 'Czar'," he continued.

"Friends, this is what I do promise: I pledge to form a right-wing government that cares for all its citizens. Not a government filled with ministers who do nothing but sit around collecting paychecks instead of keeping dangerous COVID mutations from entering the country. Not one with a transport minister who tells people that whoever refuses to vote for her party is a bad human being."

"Netanyahu is not on the Right. A true right-wing government would not allow COVID variants to enter the country. The real Right would not ignore that over the last 12 years of Likud rule, we've lost [large parts of the Negev desert] to a Bedouin land grab. Let's pretend nothing is happening to Jews living in Judea and Samaria. Thousands of businesses in Dimona, Arad and Be'er Sheva are terrorized on a daily basis. I've seen it with my own eyes. They pay security firms hundreds of thousands monthly to prevent Bedouins from burning down their business. There's no...