Gideon Sa'ar on ending engagement with the Blue and White party/Elad Gutman
The chairman of Tikva Khadasha - the state right-wing minister Gideon Sa'ar was interviewed this evening (Saturday) for the first time since he announced the split from Benny Gantz's state camp party, and its actual dissolution. In an interview he conducted on the program "Meet the Press" on Channel 12, Sa'ar told about the considerations that led him to the decision - and about the plans for the rest of the way.
Sa'ar said in an interview that he gave Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu an ultimatum: "If I don't join the war cabinet within a few days - I will resign." He further explained: "I said that I will stay in the government as long as I can influence and the direction is right.
I want an opportunity to try to influence.
Outside of the war cabinet, I cannot influence."
"Outside the War Cabinet I cannot influence."
Sa'ar and Netanyahu/Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel
"The war brought back a security policy agenda that was not there before," he said.
"There is a huge audience of the state right that believes in the path that I believe in and not the path led by the 1964 coalition."
When asked about Gantz's decision not to join the war cabinet, Sa'ar said that "there is a clear line between October and March. Then he wanted me in the cabinet, now he doesn't."
More in Walla!
The breakthroughs, the treatments and what does the future hold?
Everything you need to know about diabetes
In collaboration with Sanofi
"There is a clear line between October and March. Then he wanted me in the cabinet, now he doesn't."
Sa'ar and Gantz/Knesset Speaker, Noam Moshkowitz
Sa'ar even accused the cabinet of mismanaging the war and the IDF's "shuffling" in the Gaza Strip. "Day by day we are moving further away from victory.
It's a dribble in the middle of the field, we should have entered the Rafah a long time ago.
According to what I understand, there is no organized plan to destroy the military and governmental capabilities of Hamas, there is no control over the income of humanitarian aid."
According to polls published this week on television channels, Sa'ar's party wins 6-5 mandates, some of which come from Gantz, and some from Likud. In the polls, his party Gantz's party still leads by a large margin over the Likud, while Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's "Religious Zionist" party does not pass the threshold for most of them. In the three polls, the state camp receives 30-34 mandates, while the Likud fluctuates between 17 mandates and 21. In two of the polls Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu jumps to 11 seats.
More on the same topic:
Gideon Saar
The state camp
the cabinet