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NEWS DESK | Israel’s political parties on Monday mocked the Likud’s pledge of allegiance to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by formulating their own pledges in an apparent tongue-in-cheek jab at a move seen as impotent, likely to carry no real significance come election time in September.
The left-wing Labor party patronizingly offered its “pledge to human beings” on the main Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv Monday, while former justice minister Ayelet Shaked’s United Right drafted a pledge of allegiance to ten right-wing values.
Those right-wing values include support for the controversial nation-state law, strengthening Jewish identity, implementing full Israeli sovereignty in the West Bank (opposing a Palestinian state or any Jewish withdrawal from there), opposing illegal immigration and waging a “decisive and uncompromising” fight against terror.
Blue & White's co-chair Yair Lapid told Israel's Kan public broadcaster on Monday that the Likud loyalty pledge was “a sign of Netanyahu’s weakness.”
“Only someone in total panic makes everyone sign to say how wonderful he is, how great he is and how much they believe in him,” he explained.
Other rivals including Yisrael Beitenu’s Avigdor Liberman and Blue & White’s Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon posted on social media, likening the Likud pledge to a “North Korea-style loyalty declaration.”
Netanyahu snapped back on social media that Likud chose its leader and electoral candidates in democratically run primaries.
"Prime Minister and Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu is the only Likud candidate for prime minister -- and there will be no other candidate," reads the Likud pledge executed Sunday to purportedly prevent any chance of a different party member vying after the September election.
It came as an apparent response to Liberman’s comment over the weekend that Israel cannot afford another stalemated election and that an alternate Likud candidate should step up should Netanyahu fail to raise a coalition.
Liberman, once again projected to be the coalition 'kingmaker', has vowed to push for a unity government with the centrist Blue & White party as opposed to ultra-Orthodox factions.
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