National Unity chairman Benny Gantz accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of spurring a civil war and called to the public to take to the streets over the government’s planned reforms to the judicial system.
“This is the time to go out and protest, the time to shake the country,” Gantz said at a National Unity party meeting on Monday. Addressing Netanyahu, he claimed: “If you continue in the path you’re taking – the responsibility for the civil war that is raging in Israeli society will be on you.”
Gantz’s call followed a large left-wing protest held in Tel Aviv on Motzei Shabbos against Netanyahu’s government at which PLO flags were waved along with signs comparing current government officials to Nazis.
“I’m shocked by Gantz’s statements, this is a clear call to sedition from the Knesset platform,” Netanyahu said at a Likud party meeting. “Gantz, who doesn’t condemn the comparison of the Justice Minister to a Nazi and the government of Israel to the Third Reich, is the one who is sowing the seeds of disaster. I call on Benny Gantz to retract his words immediately.”
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir accused Gantz of “crossing a red line in encouraging members of the radical left to take down the elected government.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Credit the American “Democrats” for this. Throughout the world, opposing the party in power has been redefined as the crime of “sedition”. The US a a role model and for over two hundred years the law of “sedition” was in the dustbin of history in the United States, until the Democrats retrieved and weaponized it to use on those who in the past would have been considered the rowdy opposition. In the US its bad enough, but in many countries, such as Israel, democracy (small “d”) has shallow routes, and seeing America using “lawfare” to suppress political opposition gives them a model to copy.
Gantz horrendous sedition & need to permanently lock him up
January 6th מלחמת מצווה and not even remotely sedition
Seemingly, different people define DEMOCRACY in different ways: For some it’s plain simple the elected government to rule; but for others it means the permission to object and fight anything and everything that the democratically elected government decides, either by public protest or through leftist supreme court judges.
let these palestinian flag wavers move to Aza
these secular Zionists have finally outed themselves as only really interested in suppressing Torah and Yahadus by teaming up with Arab Muslims who hate Zionism themselves, the cat is out of the bag, Zionism is anti Torah .
There are so many in the world out to get us – to kill every Jew. Why must we stab ourselves? Can’t the עם אחד be a united people?
@147 you are HILARIOUS
Why isn’t the government sending its representatives to speak with the Reform and Conservative.
Why is Lapid and venomous Gantz are allowed to represent Israel with the two groups?
Lapid and Gantz are weak leftist who are with enemies EU money is starting a intifada and civil war.
Try the for sedation and intend to initiate uprisings.
They preach Leftist liberal tolerance until it no longer suits
They profess to be democratic
Until it no longer suits
Hypocritical to say the least
We still can not hate our brethren
only their policies which are rotten to the core