At the meeting of the Yesh Atid faction held today (Monday), the chairman of the opposition, Yair Lapid, spoke. He opened his remarks by referring to the conference held last night at the Nation Buildings in Jerusalem, which dealt with Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip. According to him: "The return to Gaza conference held yesterday in Jerusalem, with the participation senior members of the coalition, and with the participation of senior members of Likud, it was a messianic, illusory, disconnected, trans-priestial, harmful, dangerous to Israel's security, destructive to our foreign relations, an explanatory disaster, a direct harm to the legal efforts of the state." Last night about the said conference, which she expressed on his account X.
Lapid even added: "In this coalition, in its shift, with the people you saw yesterday dancing on the stage, there was a massacre of the seventh of October.
That's where their government led us.
This is the result of their policy.
For this they now want a reward?
A bonus for the fact that their government had the worst massacre in the country's history?
Bow your head, look down, what do you have to dance?"
Lapid at the Yesh Atid faction meeting, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
He said: "Our fighters in Gaza are freezing, and they are dancing. Hundreds of thousands of families are panicking at every doorbell, and they are dancing. Dozens of families in the country are sitting down, and they are dancing. We will not win the war with this group. We will not defeat Hamas with these people.
Later in his speech he said Lapid: "Don't be mistaken for a moment.
The reason they want to return to Gaza is not security.
The reason they preach transfer is not security.
These people have never brought and will never bring security to the State of Israel.
They want to go back there because they are messiahs.
Because they think that Ben Gvir and Orit Struck are the messengers of Mashiach ben David on earth.
People will die because of this madness.
As if they didn't die enough.
They just don't care.
For them, all those who are now fighting in Gaza are the donkeys of the Messiah, all those who pay taxes are the donkeys of the Messiah, all those who will die because of their delusions are the donkeys of the Messiah."
Lapid: Ofer Kasif, Amichai Eliyahu and Ben Gvir are not supposed to be members of the Knesset // Credit: Yehuda Shlesinger
Following Israel Hayom's publication of the Yesh Atid party's decision to submit a motion of no confidence in the government to the Knesset, the chairman of the faction said of the coalition members: "We will not change the extremists.
They are trapped in their own delusion.
The great tragedy yesterday was the massive presence of senior Likud officials on stage and in the audience.
Ministers and members of the Knesset participated in this delusion.
This is what happens when the government has no strategy for the day after.
So the only strategy left for them is that the day after the coming of the Messiah.
The Israeli ruling party, what was once a national-liberal party, what was once a normal, Zionist party, with values and common sense, is no longer with us.
The Prime Minister's silence yesterday said one thing loudly: 'May the country burn, the main thing is that I stay in power.'"
In response to Israel Hayom's question about his opinion on Lieberman's refusal to participate in the vote of no confidence in the government, Lapid replied: "I am surprised about Lieberman, what is he trying to do to keep this government in place. Whoever passes this budget should submit a motion of no confidence against him... I expect "Maliberman to help the State of Israel, not the coalition."
Lieberman: does not agree with the motion of no confidence in the government, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
"This is not the Likud. This is a party that has been lost. This party is no longer qualified to be a ruling party. The prime minister who approved them to participate in this conference is not qualified to lead the State of Israel," added Lapid at the end of his remarks.
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