Although Shinui Party leader Tommy Lapid has expressed some hawkish views in the past, he revealed downright left-wing views in a campaign appearance last night in Be'er Sheva. Lapid said that the new government must begin a process leading to Israel's withdrawal from most of Judea, Samaria and Gaza; the establishment of a Palestinian state; and the sharing of Jerusalem between Jews and Arabs. According to Lapid's vision, an Arab deputy mayor will run the Arab autonomous neighborhoods' affairs, while the holy sites will retain their current status.
Lapid predicts that Labor will enter a unity government - "maybe without Mitzna, but it will enter" - and that his party will fill it out. "They're talking now about a Likud-Shas partnership, but the end of the story will be a Likud-Labor-Shinui government," he told Arutz-7's Moshe Priel last night, with Shinui providing the "balance between the Likud's aggressiveness and Labor's defeatism." Unsurprisingly, the Shinui leader said that a right-wing government would be a "catastrophe for Israel."
Israelis go to the polls one week from today.
Lapid predicts that Labor will enter a unity government - "maybe without Mitzna, but it will enter" - and that his party will fill it out. "They're talking now about a Likud-Shas partnership, but the end of the story will be a Likud-Labor-Shinui government," he told Arutz-7's Moshe Priel last night, with Shinui providing the "balance between the Likud's aggressiveness and Labor's defeatism." Unsurprisingly, the Shinui leader said that a right-wing government would be a "catastrophe for Israel."
Israelis go to the polls one week from today.