Bennett gives coalition ultimatum: Justice Ministry or bust
http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel/.premium-1.655139
But sources in Netanyahu’s Likud party said they thought Bennett’s demand for the Justice Ministry was pure spin, aimed at allowing him to demand another senior portfolio in its place.
“Bennett knows how important the justice portfolio is to Netanyahu, and that the chances of him giving this portfolio are slim,” one said. “Presumably, this demand is aimed at allowing Bennett to ‘compromise’ later on the Foreign Ministry or another senior ministry.”
Just how spectacularly awful will this coalition government be? Remembering that Habayit Hayehudi is an explicitly racist, fascist party, consider that this is the offer they've
rejected as insufficient:
On Monday, Likud made the deal it is offering Bennett public in a humiliating fashion, in an effort to pressure him into signing. Under this deal, Bennett would get the Education Ministry, with an expanded budget, and also serve as a member of the diplomatic-security cabinet. MK Uri Ariel would be housing minister, and also have responsibility for the World Zionist Organization Settlement Division, which handles most construction in the West Bank. Shaked would get the culture and sport portfolio, including responsibility for the Toto lottery. Finally, Habayit Hayehudi would get a deputy defense minister with responsibility for the Civil Administration in the West Bank, enabling it to bolster the settlements, and the chairmanship of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee.
Imagine if Eisenhower had appointed Orval Faubus as head of Housing and Urban Development, and appointed George Wallace Attorney General.