The Democrats party leader Golan calls Netanyahu ‘dangerous for Israel’; Gantz: Campaign not at an end

Yair Golan, head of the opposition’s left-wing The Democrats party, calls Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “dangerous for Israel,” arguing that he has failed to achieve even “a single one” of Israel’s strategic goals and that the Iranian regime “is coming out of the war stronger strategically than it entered it, with the upper hand.”

“Netanyahu’s political and strategic failure is even more serious. He has left Israel outside the negotiating room. Israel has lost the ability to influence and strengthen its national security. Decisions about our security have been taken away from the Israeli government and are being made over its head,” Golan says— claiming that Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah will be able to “rebuild and come out stronger in the next round” because Tehran closed a deal with US President Donald Trump.

“As long as this government is in place, Israel will not be secure. Netanyahu committed a crime against Israel’s security. He cannot continue to be in charge next time,” says Golan.

In further opposition criticism, opposition Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz says the ceasefire announcements “hold no significance; only the results we will see in the coming days and months.”

“This campaign must not end without an agreement for the destruction or removal of uranium, the cessation of ballistic missile production, and Iran halting the arming of its proxies,” he says, calling on Israel to “reserve for itself, in any future agreement, the freedom of action against any Iranian rehabilitation attempt, continue to act against Hezbollah and hold southern Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed and the threat to the residents of the north is removed.”