MKs of the National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu party, together with right-wing groups, convened last night for what MK Yuri Stern called a "very comprehensive meeting," in which they made final plans to try to topple the government and hold early elections. "We all agree," Stern told Arutz-7 today, "that Prime Minister Sharon has veered off the path for which he was elected and is reverting to the Oslo process - the Gaza and Bethlehem First plan, an upcoming withdrawal from Hevron, the upcoming dismantling of outposts, giving Arafat a stage by allowing the PA council to convene, etc."
Likud Knesset faction head MK Ze'ev Boim was angered by the initiative, saying that "MK Tzvi Hendel and others are almost serial right-wing-government dismantlers..."
Minister Effie Eitam, who leads the National Religious Party that is currently not leaving the government, took the middle road. Speaking with Arutz-7 today, he first listed the government's positive accomplishments in terms of security:
"The army rides around Hevron in open jeeps, there is no more [PA-controlled] Area A, etc. All this could not have been done without a national unity government - everyone remembers the damage done by the left-wing demonstrations during the 1982 Peace for Galilee war..." He then acknowledged, however, that the government "is now wobbling between two sides, one of which is totally determined by the political dictates of the internal race [within Labor] between Ben-Eliezer and Mitzna. We [the NRP] must keep careful watch..."
Likud Knesset faction head MK Ze'ev Boim was angered by the initiative, saying that "MK Tzvi Hendel and others are almost serial right-wing-government dismantlers..."
Minister Effie Eitam, who leads the National Religious Party that is currently not leaving the government, took the middle road. Speaking with Arutz-7 today, he first listed the government's positive accomplishments in terms of security:
"The army rides around Hevron in open jeeps, there is no more [PA-controlled] Area A, etc. All this could not have been done without a national unity government - everyone remembers the damage done by the left-wing demonstrations during the 1982 Peace for Galilee war..." He then acknowledged, however, that the government "is now wobbling between two sides, one of which is totally determined by the political dictates of the internal race [within Labor] between Ben-Eliezer and Mitzna. We [the NRP] must keep careful watch..."