Angry reactions on the right to what Meretz chairman MK Nitzan Horowitz said tonight (Saturday) on Channel 13, which implies support for the Hague tribunal’s announcement to open an investigation against Israel.
MK Nitzan Horowitz He said in the “Central Headquarters” program that “there was room for the Hague tribunal’s decision to investigate. Israel needs to ask itself what it did to prevent this.” The Meretz chairman also called on Israel to cooperate with the law in The Hague instead of attacking it.
Nitzan Horowitz to Ayala Hasson: “There was room for the Hague tribunal’s decision to investigate, Israel should ask itself what it did to prevent this”@NitzanHorowitz @AyalaHasson #Central headquarters pic.twitter.com/saAUZQWT9q
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In the Likud They reacted sharply and said that “Nitzan Horowitz is abandoning the IDF soldiers who are guarding him and all of us. The decision of the court in The Hague is an antisemitic decision and Prime Minister Netanyahu will fight against it anywhere in the world to repeal it. “
“Meretz, led by Horowitz, will be a partner of Bennett and Gideon, who cannot form a government without Yair Lapid as prime minister. Only the Likud will form a stable right-wing government that will take care of all Israeli citizens and fight the antisemitic decision in The Hague,” the Likud said.
Chairman of Jewish Power and the candidate on the list of religious Zionism for the Knesset, Adv. Itamar Ben Gvir, Tonight sent a letter to the Attorney General in which he asked to open an investigation against Horowitz.
“This is a crossing of a red line,” Ben Gvir wrote. , Has no place in the Knesset. “Otherwise we will not be able to look the IDF officers and soldiers in the eye,” he said.
In the party “a new hope” They said that this was “an unfortunate statement by Nitzan Horowitz at the expense of IDF soldiers. No campaign justifies support for an antisemitic decision and it would be better for him to apologize for it. The State of Israel, led by Gideon Saar, will lead a united campaign against the decision and for IDF soldiers.”
also On the right They attacked Horowitz’s words, saying that “while Bennett is out defending IDF soldiers on the international field, Horowitz is hitting us from the inside. “The heroic IDF soldiers are on guard day and night to protect the citizens of Israel, and Horowitz among them. Under Bennett’s leadership, no IDF soldier will be deterred from defending his people and country because of the anti – Semitism of The Hague and the hypocrisy of the lost left.”
In motion “if you want” They also responded to MK Horowitz’s statement that IDF soldiers should be interrogated in The Hague: “Horowitz’s horrific remarks that IDF soldiers should be interrogated in The Hague despise IDF casualties, IDF invalids and Israeli fighters for generations. “IDF soldiers have often paid with their lives to avoid harming the uninvolved that terrorist organizations have used as human shields. In his words, Horowitz creates justifications for our greatest haters to make headlines. This is mental misery at its best.”