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Ben Gvir calls Hezbollah ceasefire ‘a historic mistake’ but doesn’t say he’ll quit government
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting of his far-right Otzma Yehudit party at the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 18, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir says he’ll oppose the ceasefire deal with Hezbollah, denouncing it as “a historic mistake,” but doesn’t say his far-right Otzma Yehudit party will quit in protest.
“This isn’t a ceasefire. It’s a return to the concept of quiet for quiet, and will already saw where this leads,” Ben Gvir writes in a post on X detailing his opposition to the deal, predicting that “ultimately we’ll again need to return to Lebanon.”
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