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Gantz: Netanyahu chooses to include Kahanists in government
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National Unity chairman Benny Gantz blames Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bringing Kahanists into the government after National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir demanded an investigation into Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar for allegedly spying on senior officials.
“Netanyahu chose to bring Ben Gvir into the Knesset, he chose to form a government with him, he chose to return him to the government,” Gantz tweets. “He is not being ‘blackmailed’ by the Kahanists, he chooses to bring them into the holy of holies of state security — and to harm the security of us all.”
Ben Gvir does not have the standing to judge Bar “and the first person responsible for the enormous damage Ben Gvir is causing is Netanyahu,” he writes.
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