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Monday, September 16, 2019
Netanyahu fires back at Gantz: He’s ‘playing politics’ with national security
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleBrushing aside Gantz’s criticism, Netanyahu accuses his rival of “playing politics” with Israel’s security.
“Benny Gantz, you’re not ashamed to play politics with security issues?” the premier says in a video response, before castigating Gantz for once admitting — during his tenure as IDF chief of staff — to having endangered Israeli soldiers to protect Palestinian civilians.
“We prepared for every scenario, including that Islamic Jihad and Hamas would disrupt the elections with rocket fire on our cities and we prepared a tough response,” Netanyahu says.
“I’ll choose the date to enter into the [military] campaign we prepared.”
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