IDF forces continue to eliminate terrorists and locate weapons throughout the Gaza Strip; fighters of the 401st Brigade Combat Team located approximately 100 rocket installations/IDF Spokesman
The Minister of Heritage, Amichai Eliyahu (Otzma Yehudit), promised today (Monday) that if the war stops - his party will withdraw from the government.
"If the war stops, not only will there not be a government, there won't be a state, that's clear to everyone," he said in an interview with Anat Davidov and Udi Segal on the "Seven-Nine" show on 103FM.
"Even Likud won't let it happen, I don't see it happening. I don't think it's realistic."
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in the future, the minister said that he is frustrated that Hamas has not yet been defeated and that humanitarian aid continues to flow into the Gaza Strip.
"It hurts me that we didn't get what we wanted, I hope we get there soon. We need to stop the humanitarian aid, and demand every day how the strip will look the 'day after,'" said the minister.
On the issue of the abductees deal, he added: "I voted against the previous deal, but I don't disparage those who voted for it. I'm just saying that there are prices, and these are prices that we pay to this day, in that we cannot stop humanitarian aid. There is complexity here and it is costing us today that we cannot subdue Hamas."
"It hurts me that we didn't get what we wanted."
Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu/Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel
The interviewer claimed to the minister that the things he is frustrated with are the responsibility of the government, of which he is a part.
Eliyahu replied: "It's definitely our responsibility, and we make sure to steer the ship in the right direction. The limited cabinet does not contain the side that thinks it should be decided, so I'm worried. I think Gallant, Eisenkot, and even Gantz, people I greatly appreciate, but they certainly did not vote Otzma Yehudi at the ballot box Our perceptions as a party have turned out to be correct over time."
When asked if the presence of Gantz and Eisenkot interferes with the decision of Hamas, Minister Eliyahu replied: "No, I say the opposite. I say that it is good that they are there and there should be more people from the right side as well. It is impossible that the opinion of those people who, in my eyes, share the 'conception' will be the opinion The central or exclusive one. I mean the damned Oslo concept, which told the whole world that there is a Palestinian people here, and instead of defeating them, it strengthened all the crazies among them. It gave them weapons, and even though we shouted a thousand times, it continued to be ignored. This is the concept."
The minister claimed that Israel needs to toughen its position in order to achieve its goals, and among other things, not to admit Palestinian laborers from Judea and Samaria.
"They say explicitly that they support the massacre of Hamas," he explained.
"That's why I'm coming and saying that we need to stand up for ourselves, that's how it works in the Middle East - it's not the Western language, that when you're weak you're given up on."
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