Israel’s Vice Prime Minister Chaim Ramon, currently under investigation for sexual misconduct, predicted that if free democratic elections were held today the Israeli people would elect Benjamin Netanyahu. Ramon finds this sufficient reason to prevent elections from taking place – to actively suppress the collective will of the people. His reasoning? Bibi is a power hungry fascist!
(IsraelNN.com) “We must prevent the disaster of elections that the Labor party chairman is bringing upon us,” Vice Prime Minister Chaim Ramon (Kadima) said this weekend. “We must not bring Bibi [Netanyahu] to power, there is no reason to put Bibi in charge,” Ramon added. He was speaking on Channel 2′s “Meet the Press,” in an interview taped Friday and aired Saturday.
Ramon said he is currently doing all he can to make sure that Ehud Olmert remains as head of the government, and barring that, to have him replaced by “whomever Kadima selects to head it.” Despite this, he estimated that elections would take place within the next year.
Ramon contended that Barak had already brought the Likud back into power before, when he resigned from his post as Prime Minister in 2000, and that he was about to do the same thing again now, by calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Olmert. In the interview, he asked repeatedly to give Olmert a chance to present his version of the relationship with businessman Morris (Moshe) Talansky and to let his lawyers cross-examine Talansky before passing judgment on him.
Barak has ‘Chutzpah’
Ramon also attacked Barak for his statement that the Kadima primaries were delaying implementation of a “calm” in Gaza. Ramon called this statement “chutzpah” because Barak himself was the one who brought about the need for holding primaries.
