Likud slams Gantz's first speech and call for unity, calling him a 'leftist'

Likud puts out a dismissive response to Benny Gantz’s speech, which charged that Likud’s leadership of the country was built on incitement and tolerated corruption. Gantz, the message says repeatedly, is a “leftist.”

The statement reads:

“All Gantz’s verbiage, which received such a warm embrace from the media, can’t hide the fact that he’s a leftist. Anyone who says he’s neither left nor right — he’s left. Right after the elections, Gantz will unite with [Yair] Lapid and the rest of the leftist parties — and form a leftist government. The left’s tired trick of sticking a general at the head of their list to topple a right-wing government — won’t work this time on the nationalist camp.”