On the way to center-left unions? Blue and white chairman and defense minister Bnei Gantz There is a press conference today (Monday) in the village of Maccabiah, in which he referred to the multiplicity of parties in the center-left bloc and called for the unification of lists ahead of the 24th Knesset elections: “I am willing to sacrifice a lot.
Gantz’s office also announced that it had approached the leaders of the parties in the bloc to coordinate a meeting tomorrow evening regarding the union, including Yesh Lapid chairman Yair Lapid, Israelis chairman Ron Huldai, Meretz chairman Nitzan Horowitz, and Telam Moshe chairman Ya’alon, Chairman of Yisrael Beiteinu Avigdor Lieberman, Chairman of the Labor Party Amir Peretz, Chairman of the Swing MK Ofer Shelach and Chairman of the Economic Party Yaron Zelicha.
“I, Maj. Gen. Bnei Gantz, a soldier of the State of Israel, address you directly – who have been fighting for months to get rid of Bibi, the one who holds an entire country by the throat to escape the terror of the court,” Gantz said in his opening remarks. “You who believed in me and were disappointed in your voice and your trust to make a change three times seriously and indeed three times we were able to block it and form an extremist government that would grant it immunity.”
“Then Corona, a plague and a global crisis, a war for the lives of all of us, for our health, livelihood and unity and I a soldier of Israel I stood up, shook the hand of the man I promised to replace, a serial breaker of promises, I pressed because Israel is at war and I am first and foremost a soldier,” he explained. . “I was wrong. While tens of thousands of businesses collapsed and hundreds of thousands of citizens were left without a livelihood Bibi was busy arranging for himself tax benefits in the millions.”
“While a real and deadly plague is raging outside and threatening the lives of all of us he continues to incite, divide, dismantle us from within because it serves his personal interest so that he can escape the terror of the court,” he continued. “He cheated on me, you guys, once too many times. From now on there will be a cash payment for the exercise the man did and is doing for Israel.. As Minister of Defense and Justice, I am going to fight alongside Israel and you too are going to Bibi – to court. We will make sure that happens. “
Ganz called for the unification of lists in the center-left camp: “He must not be allowed to dismantle us into party fragments, so I call on everyone for whom Israel is important and on anyone who does not go with Bibi to give up the ego and unite. Lapid, Huldai, Boogie, Shelach, Zelicha All those who did not sit with Bibi, let’s meet and find the method and the way, Let’s enter the room tomorrow and find the solutions for the benefit of the state without ego and without fear. I’m willing to sacrifice a lot because if the ego goes Bibi will go, let’s unite so that Bibi will go. “
Ganz referred to the possibility of entering the Yesh Atid list under Yair Lapid and said: “What matters is not my location But we will make sure that Netanyahu ends his term and we will lead the next government in a unified way for all Israeli citizens. Lapid and I will sit down and talk and find the right formula“. Later, he referred to reports of contacts with Bennett, which he denied and said:” Need to understand Shabnet and Saar represent the right and we have high chances of joining. I am talking about the alternative to Israel and everyone should agree to that. “
Defense Minister Bnei Gantz from the cabinet meeting
The Yesh Atid party wrote on its Twitter account in response to Gantz: “Every effort will be made to lead to connections that will lead to a sane and liberal government that will change the country.”
Every effort is made to lead to connections that will lead to a sane and liberal government that will change the country
– There is a future (@YeshAtidParty) January 11, 2021
Earlier tonight, the chairman of the Tnufa party, MK Ofer, held a press conference during which he called on the chairman of the “Israelis” party, Ron Huldai, the former justice minister Avi Nissenkorn and the leaders of the “Labor” party to unite ahead of the upcoming elections: “Requirements and preconditions. We will sit, marry and give and clean the body that our camp wishes for,” said the Knesset member.