MK Gottlieb: "Eisenkot pays protection money to Tibi and Abbas"

MK Tali Gottlieb attacked Gadi Eisenkot in an interview on Channel 14, accusing him of paying protection money to Ahmad Tibi and Mansour Abbas, and calling on Netanyahu to cease contacts with him. Gottlieb called Eisenkot a "puppet of the radical left" and claimed that Ra'am is a terrorist-supporting party.

MK Tali Gottlieb harshly attacked former minister Gadi Eisenkot in an interview on Channel 14's morning program. Gottlieb called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop contacts with Eisenkot, whom she called "a puppet of radical left forces, funded by Kaplan Force and North." She accused Eisenkot of "paying protection money and bribes to terrorist supporters," naming MKs Ahmad Tibi and Mansour Abbas. Gottlieb claimed that the Ra'am party is "a terrorist-supporting party" and that it funds Hamas through the 48 Association. She quoted Mansour Abbas as saying he only recognizes a Jewish state because he has no choice, and recalled his statements about "one state and it is Palestine."