The two main Israeli parties cannot reach consensus as both control an almost equal number of Knesset seats, each falling short of the majority. The addition of Lieberman's party to either group would tilt the balance, but has refused to do so, vowing instead to join a unity government.
The Yisrael Beytenu party chief and former Israeli Defense Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said that Israelis will not forgive the two rival party leaders if they fail to form a unity government and push israel into a third election in less than a year, The Times of israel reported.
“The citizens of Israel will not forgive you if you lead us to another round of elections just because of ego and personal matters,” Lieberman wrote in a Facebook post.
Lieberman himself helped trigger the second election, which took place in September, by refusing to throw the support of his party behind the Benjamin Netanyahu-led government following the April elections.
Avigdor, who leads the non-religious Yisrael Beytenu party, demanded that a bill regulating military conscription for seminary students be passed without changes, but the demand was rejected by Israel's ultra-Orthodox parties, who then formed a single bloc with Netanyahu's Likud.
In his Facebook post, Lieberman asserted that ideological differences between Likud and its main rival, the Blue and White party led by Benny Gantz, are minimal. He blasted Netanyahu for his romance with the…
