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Netanyahu warns against small right-wing parties, says they could hand election to 'fascist Left'

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  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged voters to avoid supporting small right-wing parties in upcoming elections.
  • He warned that splitting the right-wing vote could lead to the opposition forming the next government.
  • Netanyahu claimed opposition leaders would impose a "fascist regime" and "sell off the country."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stark warning to voters on Monday, urging them to reject small emerging parties on the right flank. He cautioned that fragmenting the right-wing vote could inadvertently hand the election victory to the opposition bloc, enabling them to form the next government.

We must not establish these splinter parties that will only burn our votes.

— Benjamin NetanyahuWarning voters against supporting small right-wing parties.

Netanyahu's appeal comes just before the reported launch of a new right-wing party led by Brig.-Gen. (res.) Ofir Winter, which polls suggest could draw votes away from parties currently in Netanyahu's coalition. Additionally, Arab-Israeli activist Yoseph Haddad officially registered a new right-wing party, "Brave Israel," on Monday.

It’s like taking your votes... and throwing them in the trash. In the trash. You burned them.

— Benjamin NetanyahuDescribing the consequence of voting for splinter parties.

"We must not establish these splinter parties that will only burn our votes," Netanyahu declared, likening the act to "throwing them in the trash." He asserted that such divisions would empower opposition leaders like Gadi Eisenkot, Yair Golan, Mansour Abbas, and Avigdor Liberman, whom he accused of planning to "impose a fascist regime" and conduct a "fire sale of the country." Netanyahu painted a dire picture of an opposition government, predicting severe restrictions on freedoms and a "diplomatic disaster, an internal disaster, and a disaster for true democracy."

Then [Yashar Party leader Gadi] Eisenkot’s party will rise, together with [Democrats Party leader] Yair Golan, together with [Ra'am Party leader] Mansour Abbas, and with [Yisrael Beytenu Party leader Avigdor] Liberman, who always goes along with them.

— Benjamin NetanyahuListing opposition leaders he claims would benefit from a split right-wing vote.

The emergence of these new right-wing parties is fueled by dissatisfaction among voters, particularly concerning the ultra-Orthodox draft issue. Parties like Chili Tropper and Yoaz Hendel’s Zionist Home-The Reservists, and Gilad Erdan’s Unity Party, are vying for right-wing voters who feel unrepresented by existing parties. Netanyahu stressed that voting for these smaller factions "simply guarantees the rise of the left, and that would be a disaster for Israel."

And what they will do here immediately, immediately, is buy, sell, and carry out a fire sale of the country.

— Benjamin NetanyahuAccusing opposition leaders of intending to dismantle the country's assets.
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