Itamar Ben Gvir: They offered me the role of ambassador, but I'm not looking for jobs - but ideology
After reports in recent days of various offers to Itamar Ben Gvir to get him to remove his list, Otzma Yehudit, Ben Gvir announced tonight (Monday) at a press conference that they reject all of the offers.
In Ben Gvir's words, "It's no secret that in recent days various members of the coalition made me many offers that would have settled down Itamar Ben Gvir for many years to come.
"I understand that around the Prime Minister, they denied the news item about the offer of a ministerial position, but the truth is that they know very well who the important and the different figures in the coalition are who came to me tens of times in recent days and spoke at length with me. What have they NOT offered me? To be a minister in the Israeli government under one of the Charedi parties, jobs in the Jewish National Fund, the World Zionist Histadrut, respectable jobs in the Bar Association, responsibility for access to the Cave of the Patriarchs, even the job of ambassador, they offered me - what all these jobs have in common, that they are all great, respectable positions - there's a seat, a job - but one thing there is not: There is no path to follow, no ideology! No concern for the country! A word is NOT a word, a promise is NOT a promise. What others see from there, we can't see here", added Ben Gvir.
He also added that "no one offered or will offer to cancel the protection for Hamas, to cancel the arrangements in Gaza, to disqualify the whole United Arab list, no one offered or will offer to annex all areas of the Land of Israel, to stop evacuating the outposts, to be concerned for the Jewish identity of the State, to see that there is education for our Jewish heritage, to strengthen the 'Who is a Jew' law, to lower taxes, to take care of the weak and taxi drivers and divorced fathers - all this was not on the agenda. Only jobs and to lower the minimum threshold percent, which is nice, but not for that have I been working since age 14...."
Ben Gvir also added at the press conference: "They speak of a right bloc, a right bloc, but in fact, nobody wants us! They want to use and discard, they want the votes but we are second- class, from their point of view.
"Friends, the Religious Zionist elite have not only disqualified Itamar Ben Gvir. They disqualified 84,000 voters who don't exactly look like them. Otzma Yehudit does not represent a small, snobbish Beit Midrash within Religious Zionism, but a huge public, with large and small kippot, secular and traditional, development towns, working Charedim. From their point of view, anyone who isn't like them is rejected.
"True, I'm not a pilot, my father is not a rabbi, and I wasn't born into a noble settlement family, but we are not second-class, and one thing you know for sure about us in Otzma Yehudit: Our word is our word. Tonight, I'm honored to inform you in the name of the Otzma Yehudit Secretariat, that we are running till the end, for values, for truth, for the country, for the Jewish People and for all of our children!", Ben Gvir concluded.
After reports in recent days of various offers to Itamar Ben Gvir to get him to remove his list, Otzma Yehudit, Ben Gvir announced tonight (Monday) at a press conference that they reject all of the offers.
In Ben Gvir's words, "It's no secret that in recent days various members of the coalition made me many offers that would have settled down Itamar Ben Gvir for many years to come.
"I understand that around the Prime Minister, they denied the news item about the offer of a ministerial position, but the truth is that they know very well who the important and the different figures in the coalition are who came to me tens of times in recent days and spoke at length with me. What have they NOT offered me? To be a minister in the Israeli government under one of the Charedi parties, jobs in the Jewish National Fund, the World Zionist Histadrut, respectable jobs in the Bar Association, responsibility for access to the Cave of the Patriarchs, even the job of ambassador, they offered me - what all these jobs have in common, that they are all great, respectable positions - there's a seat, a job - but one thing there is not: There is no path to follow, no ideology! No concern for the country! A word is NOT a word, a promise is NOT a promise. What others see from there, we can't see here", added Ben Gvir.
He also added that "no one offered or will offer to cancel the protection for Hamas, to cancel the arrangements in Gaza, to disqualify the whole United Arab list, no one offered or will offer to annex all areas of the Land of Israel, to stop evacuating the outposts, to be concerned for the Jewish identity of the State, to see that there is education for our Jewish heritage, to strengthen the 'Who is a Jew' law, to lower taxes, to take care of the weak and taxi drivers and divorced fathers - all this was not on the agenda. Only jobs and to lower the minimum threshold percent, which is nice, but not for that have I been working since age 14...."
Ben Gvir also added at the press conference: "They speak of a right bloc, a right bloc, but in fact, nobody wants us! They want to use and discard, they want the votes but we are second- class, from their point of view.
"Friends, the Religious Zionist elite have not only disqualified Itamar Ben Gvir. They disqualified 84,000 voters who don't exactly look like them. Otzma Yehudit does not represent a small, snobbish Beit Midrash within Religious Zionism, but a huge public, with large and small kippot, secular and traditional, development towns, working Charedim. From their point of view, anyone who isn't like them is rejected.
"True, I'm not a pilot, my father is not a rabbi, and I wasn't born into a noble settlement family, but we are not second-class, and one thing you know for sure about us in Otzma Yehudit: Our word is our word. Tonight, I'm honored to inform you in the name of the Otzma Yehudit Secretariat, that we are running till the end, for values, for truth, for the country, for the Jewish People and for all of our children!", Ben Gvir concluded.
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