Against the backdrop of Minister Orit Struk's outrageous statement, which strongly criticized the heads of the defense establishment and compared the condemnations to the Wagner Group's internal revolt in Russia, a meeting of the factions was held on Monday. MK Benny Gantz said: "What message does this convey to the forces on the ground? For citizens who need to obey the law?. Netanyahu should fire her. No condemnations or clarifications. Every minute she remains in office is a blow to national security."
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MK Benny Gantz spoke at the start of the faction meeting: "What does Netanyahu do when he gets up in the morning? "The same things but slowly. The regime coup is here, but slowly... The same lady and the same glorification, only 'in installments'. They are trying to put the public to sleep, and to move forward in the same way is a true alarm," Gantz said.
"Netanyahu chose extremism, chose to be dragged in and harm democracy, national unity, security and the economy," Gantz continued. "Still, it's not too late to do the right thing. Stop the unilateral legislation, appoint the representative to the Judicial Selection Committee as agreed, and return to the President's House. If, God forbid, the coup laws are passed, and I'm not sure Netanyahu will have a majority in the Knesset to pass them, they will be laws with an expired stamp. In any government that I establish or take part in in the future, I will ensure their abolition before it is established by legislation."
Gantz referred to the security situation, saying: "And where is the prime minister who will put things in order? Iran is rushing forward, terrorism is rearing its head in record numbers, and instead of holding nightly discussions with the heads of the defense establishment, Netanyahu spends his nights and weekends in meetings with Yariv Levin and Dudi Amsalem and slams the door on the White House. Netanyahu is led and busy putting out fires instead of running the state. Once in front of the Americans. The enormous damage that its ministers create every day, even a thousand firefighters will not be able to extinguish – only another government can do it."
Lapid: "Corruption will take over the State of Israel"
The Leader of the Opposition spoke at the faction meeting: "A guilty person in the middle of a trial or a convicted felon, one of the two will choose the next police commissioner. This is not a sane situation. This is not a reasonable situation. If the grounds of reasonableness are eliminated, first of all they will return Deri, another convicted felon, contrary to the court's ruling, and then we will see here only the appointment of associates, only tailor-made tenders. Corruption will take over the State of Israel. Honest citizens will have no one to turn to and no one to protect them."
Lieberman: The negotiations at the president's residence - we warned that this was a fraud"
Speaking at a meeting of the Knesset faction, Yisrael Beiteinu party chairman said: "At the end of March, the negotiations began at the president's residence, we warned everyone that this was a fraudulent exercise and not real and honest negotiations. Everything that has happened since then only proves that our path is right. Everything that happened around the Judicial Selection Committee, and the unilateral promotion of the reasonableness cause, says only one thing: If you don't accept the coalition's position, they immediately break the rules of the game."
Lieberman at the faction meeting, photo: None
"This is especially clear against the background of the elections for the Bar Association," Lieberman continued. "The day after losing the elections, the coalition immediately submitted a law to dissolve the Bar Association, and it immediately receives approval from the Ministerial Committee on Legislation. I call on my colleagues in the opposition, announce here and now that there are no more fraudulent exercises."
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