Adv. Gonen Ben Yitzhak, one of the leaders of the protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who joined MK Moshe Ya’alon’s party yesterday, spoke today (Monday) with Erel Segal on his program on 103FM. Among other things, Ben Yitzhak spoke about the great connection to the protesters. , Warned Gideon Saar, explaining what should happen at the time of closing the lists in the election: “I understand the potential for voting – not only will we pass the blocking percentage but we will also get more.”
You were part of the ‘Crime Minister’ gang, and were expected to join the party that the guys formed from there, what happened that you ended up going with Boogie?
“I love these guys, they are my best friends, but we are really in my eyes at a very difficult time and it is a time of correction. We both live in Modi’in, and this is a city that manages to maintain a very close lifestyle between religious and secular for example. And I think this rift “It’s something that needs to be resolved, and something needs to be done. My act is to go to a political place, which may not be my most natural place, but I think it’s the most correct in the situation we are in.”
There is no single survey that predicts a blockage percentage.
“Patience, we announced yesterday a run. To this day, Telam has not run as an independent party. I believe that not only will we pass the blocking percentage, but we will also get more, because I am looking at the political map, and I understand what the voting potential is among the people who today do not participate in the polls at all. It’s very early to come and eulogize TLM. But it’s clear that as we approach February 4, the day of the submission of the lists, we will all have to do some mental arithmetic, each according to the power he has accumulated. I do not know what will happen then, I hope to be “Political power with power. Will it happen? Days will tell, I do not know.”
Do you think Boogie Ya’alon is a good politician?
“I think he’s an excellent politician. He’s made mistakes like any other politician, and I measure not only by the successes and failures, but also by how he copes with the places where he fails.”
Moshe (Boogie) Ya’alon says goodbye to Yair Lapid. He says that Yair Lapid cannot bring the goods, so he goes on his own, but at the same time calls for connections. Doesn’t that seem ridiculous to you? There are 10 parties here, it’s crazy.
“I see it differently. Is there a crisis in the bloc that we belong to? Obviously yes, but it also has a positive aspect, and that is that we are now in some process of rebuilding, and she says different groups appeal to a different voting audience, and I tell you that “It appeals to an audience of voters who also have a future and neither a rat nor others can reach them, precisely because Boogie is recognized as a security man.”
And Gideon Saar didn’t either?
“I think Gideon Saar does not, because he represents a completely opposite position when it comes to the court and the judiciary, completely opposite to Boogie’s state position that strengthens the court and sees it as an important factor in the country. Gideon Saar wants to change and harm the justice system.”
What is the difference between Boogie and Yair Lapid?
“I tell you that in this case, the whole of Boogie and Torch together is nothing more than the sum of its parts, because there is a whole group of voters who will vote Boogie and not vote for Torch. And in the end, the game is between blocs. We need to bring in new votes.”
The cynics will say that there is a move here that Boogie Ya’alon is coming down in order to ascend. What do you mean? He’s a friend of yours, and you bring with him voices of protest, as if threatening Lapid, and through this you will become three or four places on Lapid’s list.
“I do not think it is so.”
Can you promise it will not be like that?
“No, because in the end they will have to make very responsible moves. And there is a situation where, if certain groups, whether it is us or other parties scraping the blocking percentage from below, will have to be responsible so as not to waste votes. This matter cannot be hidden.”