Gantz: Everything approved today will be canceled and erased from the statute book

In a statement to the media, Benny Gantz says extremists have won and the State of Israel has lost in today’s vote.
“A majority in the Knesset that wants agreements was defeated by extreme MKs who decided to change our identity, who want to take us to an abyss of hatred, to divide us, and to turn us against each other.”
“Those who think they won today will soon find this was a grave mistake for us all,” he says.
Gantz places the blame on Netanyahu, who “preferred the political needs of Ben Gvir and the whims of Levin over Israel’s diplomacy, its security, over Israeli society and democracy.”
“Anyone who saw the defense minister beg the justice minister [to compromise] understands how badly Israel now needs a responsible adult.”
“This is not how you run a country,” he says. “Netanyahu has failed. This whole government is a resonant failure.”
Gantz vows to fight all further attempts to harm democracy. He says the “hundreds of thousands of patriots protesting” offer the path forward in the face of further planned “crushing legislation to politicize judicial appointments, override the High Court, harm the gatekeepers, and oust the attorney general. The public protests “are our hope.”
“We may have lost a battle but we will win the war,” he says.
He calls on both supporters and opponents of the overhaul not to give in to hatred and “not to give up on us as one people.
He also urges reservists to continue serving in the military.
And he says, “Everything approved here will be canceled and erased from the book of laws, sooner or later.”