Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu referred Thursday, in a closed meeting of the Likud party, to the political storm over the family unification law that the Bennett-Lapid coalition is finding difficult to approve.

“They renounced the national interest and we are supposed to cover it up?” he criticized.

“This coalition has very serious cracks. We are standing in front of one of them. They formed a hybrid government, with Ra’am in the coalition, and now they are telling us to ‘rescue us from this coalition.’ Excuse me? What is this thing? They are coming to complain over Israeli security? They should not establish a government with Ra’am,” Israel’s longest-serving prime minister said.

However, the Likud faction has not yet made a decision whether it will back or oppose the law, which employs a citizenship prohibition on Palestinians who marry Israelis.

Some Likud members suggested that if the party opposed the law, the public would not forgive it. Lawmaker Shlomo Karhi said that “it might even be a trick that they are doing to us.”