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Golan: Israel becoming a pariah state, is ‘killing babies as a hobby’
Leader of The Democrats party Yair Golan heads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 19, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
Yair Golan, head of the opposition Democrats, issues a scathing denunciation of the government and the war in Gaza, saying that Israel is killing children in Gaza “as a hobby.”
“Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don’t return to acting like a sane country,” the left-wing leader, a former IDF deputy chief of staff, says in an interview with the Kan public broadcaster.
“And a sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not give itself the aim of expelling populations,” he says.
“This government is full of vengeful types with no morals and no ability to run a country in a time of crisis. This endangers our existence,” Golan says.
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