Gantz: ‘This is regime change. It’s not happening next week, it’s happening tomorrow’

Speaking to Channel 12 news, National Unity Party head Benny Gantz says, “The citizenry understands that what’s happening here is regime change. This isn’t judicial reform… It’s not happening next week, it’s happening tomorrow.”

Gantz says, “We cannot allow under any circumstances a politicization of the justice system.”

He claims that the government’s current actions “are only the first stage.” Once the courts are hobbled, he says, “they’ll do whatever they want.”

“This is the preface to a dictatorship… to the tyranny of the majority.”

He says the fight against the overhaul is vital to the retention of Israeli democracy, but must be waged “within the provisions of the law.”

“I urge Netanyahu to take responsibility. Stop this oncoming train. Then it will be possible to make progress” toward consensus.