Netanyahu is not interested to be interrupted by MK's from the right and left that seek to interupt his speech for political gains, like it happend when he represented his new Government,Netanyahu wants to speak to the Israeli people and can chosse which revenue is easier for him to present the message.
(INN).Bar Ilan because he intends to present hawkish views, while MKs from the right are concerned about the opposite possibility: that Netanyahu wants to present dovish views and wishes to avoid catcalls from nationalist MKs.
Among the MKs voicing criticism of the decision is Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, who is a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party.
“I do not understand Netanyahu’s wish to present his plan at the Begin-Sadat Center at Bar Ilan University,” Rivlin said Sunday. “I will not budge from my stand that the Knesset, as an arena for discussion and decision, is the sole venue for presentation of political plans and any move that has fateful ramifications for the State of Israel,” the second-time Knesset Speaker said.
“The Prime Minister would do well to bring to the Knesset the central matters on the agenda of the state and the nation, instead of continuing the tradition that his predecessors began,” he added, in an allusion to then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s famous speech at the Herzliya Conference in 2003 in which he presented the idea of the Disengagement from Gaza, as well as subsequent speeches by Sharon and his replacement at the helm of state, Ehud Olmert.
MK Danny Danon, also of the Likud faction, agreed with Rivlin: “Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu should deliver his planned policy speech at the Knesset podium and not at Bar Ilan University, and he should not fear the catcalls by members of the extreme Left,” he said.
Meretz faction whip, MK Ilan Gilon, said that “if Netanyahu has something to say, he should say it from behind the Knesset podium and not at Bar Ilan, which he may see as the Israeli equivalent of Al-Azhar University [where U.S. President Barack Obama gave his speech last week].
