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Netanyahu to Smotrich and Ben-Gvir: Unite or Face Disaster

Golan Israel

By: Itzhak Abuhatzeira

Editor: Golan Israel

14 Elul 5786 (27.08.26)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned his conservative coalition partners that division could hand victory to the left, invoking the 1992 election that brought the Oslo Accords.


Netanyahu on Smotrich and Ben-Gvir: ” They must unite. Every time we’ve stood together, we’ve won. When we’ve been divided, we’ve lost. In ’92, the right—just like today—had more votes than the left, but because there were three parties, we didn’t clear the electoral threshold; we lost to the left, and we got the Oslo disaster, Arafat here, Hamas here, and everything else—it’s a disaster. These are ongoing disasters, so it could happen again this time. Every time we’ve stood together, we’ve won. Every time we’ve gone our separate ways, we’ve lost.”