While more than two million people mourn, bombs Gaza Strip, Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben GvirHe expressed his displeasure. The night bombardment, which killed 58-year-old Hashel Mubarak Salman Mubarak and destroyed the infrastructure in the enclave, “poor” response The firing of rockets from the lane causing only superficial damage in Israeli border towns. Since that time, I’m Gvir entered a war of threats and condemnation with Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on the verge of resigning from the right-wing coalition.
“The prime minister, the minister of defense, the Israeli army and security forces are those who oversee the sensitive and complex security-related events facing Israel,” he said. said. liquidgame NetanyahuIn a statement after I told him Gvir reproach Israeli leader not invited to emergency meeting after rocket fired from Gaza. “If this is unacceptable to Minister Ben Gvir, You don’t have to stay in government.”, the text is over. The majority’s reaction KnessetThe Israeli parliament is far from obedient when Netanyahu threatened to leave the coalition a month ago if Ben Gvir’s judicial reform is halted.
This verbal conflicts They’ve been climbing for the past week. “If you do not want [su partido] jewish power In government, you can fire us“The minister said from a private house in Sderot, one of the towns hit by the rockets.” If you don’t want a true right-wing government, you can send us home,” he replied to Netanyahu. But despite initially threatening to leave the coalition, he has since softened his warnings. a true right-wing governmentHe added while demanding that the Prime Minister invite him to the next security meetings.
Less power in the coalition
If the Jewish Power fulfills its threat and continues boycott the Knesset plenarycoalition will be one narrow majority of 58-56 and a big headache. Although the situation is critical, Netanyahu He knows better than to hand everything over to Ben Gvir. When the minister threatened to leave the government on March 27 if Netanyahu decided to freeze the judicial reform law, the prime minister offered him a signed commitment. National Guard formation in exchange for staying. But since then, Ben Gvir has lost power in the coalition, with Netanyahu inviting him out if he didn’t like the way things were going.
“This shows that poor performance Reflected in the polls, Ben Gvir’s prime minister weakened his influence over the prime minister”, analyzes Eliav Breuer in ‘The Jerusalem Post’. “The minister of national security no longer has a credible threat to resign from government to position himself as a leader. opposition to the right It is the prime minister’s job to fail to convince the Israelis that he represents a better alternative,” he adds. The rise in the already high crime rate and the harshness of his speech deterred voters from the talents of the far right. Already in March, surveys showed that half of israel They believed that Ben Gvir should be fired.