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Gantz: Israel is ‘burning’ and needs a ‘broad unity government’ to save it
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Israel is “burning,” requiring Israelis to establish “a broad Zionist government” representing both blocs, declares Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz, in an interview with Channel 12.
“And it almost doesn’t matter who the prime minister is. It matters what this government looks like,” he says. “I am here for the State of Israel, to establish a broad unity government, to deal with the real problems of the country. And it doesn’t really matter what happens to me in this story.”
Gantz is currently polling under the electoral threshold and is the only member of the Zionist opposition not invited to a meeting of most anti-Netanyahu party leaders proposed by Yashar chairman and his former political ally Gadi Eisenkot.
Gantz has broken with other opposition leaders by suggesting he could join a Netanyahu-led government and has resisted attempts to be categorized as part of the opposition bloc.
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