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2016-06-17 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Israel ex-defense minister says to run for PM
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israel’s ex-defense minister Moshe Yaalon on Thursday said he will run for premier accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of scaring citizens in order to hold on to power.
Yaalon, forced out in May to allow Netanyahu to expand his coalition by bringing in a hardline nationalist party, has repeatedly criticized the current government since leaving office.
"The current leadership must stop scaring citizens as if we are on the verge of a second Holocaust," Yaalon told a conference in Herzliya, Israel, saying security threats were being exaggerated.
Israel "deserves a leadership that stops zigzagging and encouraging hate between different groups in Israeli society to remain in power at any price," he added.
In the remarks broadcast online Yaalon added: "My intent is to run for the leadership of Israel in the next elections" which are due to take place in 2019 at the latest.
There has been speculation that a new center-right party could be formed, with polls showing that one including Yaalon could pose a challenge to the Likud party, to which he and Netanyahu belong.
| Israeli politics is a full contact sport full of posturing drama queens, very little of which matters outside the country. The only thing I take from this is that Israeli voters are continuing to shift to the right on national security issues, away from the labour socialists. |
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Posted by Fred 2016-06-17 00:00||
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