Education Minister Naftali Bennett says he has asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be appointed defense minister after Avigdor Liberman resigned the post.
“The greatest danger to Israel is that we’ve started to think there’s no solution to the terrorism, to the terrorists, to the rockets, that there’s nothing to be done, that it’s impossible to win,” Bennett says in a speech at an education conference in Ramat Gan.
“But there are things we can do, there is a solution. When Israel decides to win, we will win,” he adds.
“Yesterday I asked the prime minister to give me the position of defense minister, with one goal: that Israel start winning again…. As minister of defense, I intend to bring innovation, creativity and a fighting spirit, to challenge the conventional wisdom of the past.”
Without a “dramatic change” in Israel’s defense thinking, he adds, “Israeli deterrence will continue to decline.”
Bennett has long criticized the Netanyahu government’s reluctance to respond more forcefully to Gaza rocket attacks, and has advocated ground incursions into the Gaza Strip.
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