Meretz chairman Zahava Galon sharply criticized Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein before the Knesset plenum Monday afternoon for remarks last week, in which he called the left a treacherous one.
Galon said, "When Yuli Edelstein says that 'not every right[winger] is a fascist right[winger], and not every left[winger] is a treacherous left[winger], it attributes treachery to the left. And the interpretation is delegitimization of the entire left and that traitors must be treated, perhaps even like [assassinated prime minister Yitzhak] Rabin the traitor. It is not surprising that we have not yet heard him apologize for calling the left 'treacherous,' words that were permitting bloodshed."