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\r\n\tJewish Home party head Naftali Bennett took a rare pre-election swipe at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party Thursday, accusing his closest allies in the Israeli political arena of not keeping their word on support for West Bank settlements.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\t“Before the elections everyone is right-wing, they travel to Judea and Samaria (occupied West Bank), but after the elections they implement freezes or give speeches about a Palestinian state in an address at Bar-Ilan,” Bennett said, referencing Netanyahu’s stated support for a Palestinian state in 2009 and a construction moratorium in the West Bank implemented the following year.
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\r\n\tBennett, who made the comments during a visit to the Blich High School in Ramat Gan, also spoke of his concerns that Netanyahu would try to form a coalition with other partners before turning to the Jewish Home.
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\r\n\t“I have a feeling that also this time I will wait for a phone call from Netanyahu like I am waiting for a date,” he said.
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\r\n\tThe minister recalled the period after the 2013 parliamentary elections when Netanyahu appeared to dally before inviting the Jewish Home, with its 12 seats, to join the coalition, while tasking Tzipi Livni, as leader of Hatnua that won just six seats, to direct negotiations with the Palestinians.
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\r\n\t“There is feeling that what happened last time will happen again, when he let Tzipi Livni with her six mandates direct the negotiations,” he said.
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\r\n\tBennett and Netanyahu have largely avoided attacking each other in the political bickering between politicians in the run up to the elections, but last month Bennett strongly criticized Netanyahu over his handling of the conflict in the Gaza Strip fought by the IOF against Hamas during the summer of 2014.
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