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Yair Golan: Netanyahu is too busy with his ‘war on the country’ to protect Israel
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is so “busy with its war on the country and its citizens” that it is “leading to the collapse of Israel’s security in all respects,” accuses The Democrats party chairman Yair Golan, calling on President Isaac Herzog to “choose a side.”
Speaking with reporters in the Knesset ahead of his party’s weekly faction meeting, Golan says the government is “busy with political survival” and is “increasingly distancing itself from the public, ignoring its needs.”
Golan calls on President Isaac Herzog to speak out about the immediate “danger to Israeli democracy.”
“We are in an era of decisions, [we must] recognize that there is a government here that has no intention of uniting the people or bringing about reconciliation. This is not a rift in the people, this is a bad government that is destroying the people,” Golan adds.
“Are you with the government or with the people?” he asks.
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