Opposition leader Yair Lapid announced today (Tuesday) that he will provide a safety net to the government in order to promote a hostage deal, in the event that ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gabir retire from the government.
As I recall, Minister Itamar Ben Gabir (Otzma Yehudit) threatened today that "a promiscuous deal will lead to the dissolution of the government."
Minister Bezalel Smotrich (religious Zionism) claimed yesterday that they would not agree to the abductee deal in the current outline.
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Netanyahu and Lapid shake hands in the plenum, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Lapid: "The first clause, the first line, in the contract between the state and its citizens, says that the state is responsible for their lives.
Not only for their health or the education of their children, but for life in the most basic and simplest sense - for their security that the state will never abandon them to die.
Israel is not an ordinary country.
It arose in the hands of a people who returned to their country after going through the greatest massacre in history.
We live here by the power of an oath to protect each other, to love each other, to care for each other.
This is what allows us to live here despite the risks, this is what makes us send our children to the army and lie awake at night.
"This contract was violated on October 7. We have no way to bring our dead back to life, but we have to return the kidnapped to their homes, otherwise something very basic will crumble in our relationship with each other, in the relationship between a people and their country, certainly in the fundamental trust between the citizens and the government. This must not happen There are things that stand above any debate.
"In the last 116 days, I have met with dozens of families of abductees. I promised them and I repeat my promise: we will give the government a safety net for any deal that will return the abductees to their homes and families. This is our obligation to the abductees and their families, this is our commitment."
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