Israel PM snubs calls for early polls
Tehran (KNA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected calls for early elections as “irresponsible,” although pressure from his coalition partners could bring down his government and make the polls inevitable.
In a televised address from Tel Aviv on Sunday, he urged his coalition partners to show "responsibility" at a time that Tel Aviv was "facing security challenges." Israel's "security is above political consideration," he alleged.
"We will defeat our enemies and I do not minimize the challenges that are facing us," the premier noted.
Earlier in the day, a meeting between Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon aimed at resolving a coalition crisis ended "without results" and they will meet again this week, Kahlon's spokesman said. "The meeting between the finance minister and the prime minister ended without results," the spokesman said in a statement. "The two agreed to meet later in the week."
Netanyahu's crisis further deepened after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, which rules the Tel Aviv-blockaded territory of the Gaza Strip, started to return the Israeli military's back-to-back incursions with rocket fires against the city of Ashkelon in southern Israel.
The group has warned the regime against testing the limits of its retaliatory capacity, threatening to hit Tel Aviv next.
Source: PressTV