Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Kirya in Tel Aviv./Eti Beit-On, PM
Member of Knesset Ram Ben Barak (Yesh Atid) was interviewed this morning (Tuesday) by Udi Segal and Anat Davidov on Radio 103FM, and harshly criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision not to send the Israeli delegation to Washington, in response to the American decision in the UN Security Council not to veto about the vote that called for a ceasefire in Gaza.
"How is the Prime Minister managing the crisis with the US?", the presenters asked at the beginning of the conversation, and MK Ben Barak did not spare his criticism: "Very bad. He is not managing the crisis, he is leading us from crisis to crisis and does not solve anything. I have no Words to describe the feeling, we have been walking with our eyes open to destruction for a long time, since the legal revolution began."
"Netanyahu is not managing the crisis."
MK Ram Ben Barak/Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel
The Knesset member went on to attack: "I don't think this government and the USA have the same values.
Israel should not have reached this place at all, how did we get to this situation?
How did we get to a situation where the US does not veto a decision of the Security Council, when we are at war and they stood by us absolutely at the beginning of the war? Why didn't we accept the American initiative and say 'come on, let's talk, let's start to see how we can advance', we don't want to solve the The problem in Gaza? That Gaza will be the second Lebanon? Will we falter there? Will our soldiers be killed?"
In light of his statements, Davidov and Segal wondered where the relations between the countries were going, and Ben Barak replied emphatically: "He decided that his 64 coalition and the desire to preserve his base is more important than relations with the USA.
Can we do without the US? The answer is no."
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Later in the interview, Ben Barak said that the members of the state camp should leave the government.
"Ganz and Eisenkot are partners in the relationship with the US, they are ministers in the Israeli government, they don't understand it, they are part of the Israeli government's decision-making, they are responsible for the decisions of the government and the cabinet whether they like it or not, whether they say they are a part or not.
The very fact that they sit in the government they are part of the decision making.
Gantz and Eisenkot should leave the government, join the efforts to overthrow the government.
This government has no right to exist, it is functioning very badly, it is leading us to destruction."
The Knesset member's call for elections during a war raised the question of whether such a move would endanger the security of the state, and Ben Barak clarified: "The answer is no. The continued stay of Netanyahu and the government - it endangers the security of the State of Israel, not going to the elections. He should have gone to the elections before 3 months, as soon as you realized that Netanyahu has no ability to manage the war without considering Smotrich and Ben Gvir. He chose to do it, that's why the war looks the way it does. Why didn't they have the discussion about who entered Gaza instead of Hamas? Why didn't they accept the American offer "No political move."
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