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Eisenkot slams PM for harming IDF, ‘choosing his personal and coalition survival over national security’
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Former IDF chief of staff and “Yashar! With Eisenkot” chairman Gadi Eisenkot slams Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he delays a scheduled televised statement on his government’s proposed bill regulating ultra-Orthodox enlistment this evening.
“Cancelling the declaration will not change the essence of the draft evasion law. This law harms the IDF’s readiness. Failing to meet the army’s need for 12,000 combat soldiers in the midst of a war is not a mistake — it’s negligence,” tweets Eisenkot, accusing the prime minister of “consciously choosing his personal and coalition survival over national security and over the lives of the soldiers.”
The bill constitutes “a betrayal and a spit in the face of those who serve and those who sacrificed their lives. It is a separation between one kind of blood and another. It is discrimination between blood and blood,” he continues.
“Netanyahu, if you truly believe this is a good law, let’s bring it to snap elections. You and the October 7 government of failure don’t have a shred of moral authority or legitimacy to legislate this disgrace.”
In a separate tweet ahead of Netanyahu’s planned address, Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz accuses Netanyahu of lying to the public about conscription and slams coalition lawmakers’ statements that he himself had advanced a conscription plan which would have taken 25 years to recruit Haredim.
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