Tel-Chai Nation

A recording was obtained where Benny Gantz speaks of sitting in a coalition with the Likud and/or Netanyahu, which Gantz is now trying to change his stance on:

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz responded Tuesday to the leaking of a recording in which he told close confidants that he would not rule out a unity government with Benjamin Netanyahu, saying in a statement that the situation has changed and that he will not now be willing to form a coalition with the prime minister.

On the night after Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced on February 28 he intended to indict Netanyahu in three corruption cases, Gantz convened a press conference, in which he announced that “given the circumstances,” his party would not sit with a Netanyahu-led Likud after the election. Blue and White officials clarified at the time that they would not rule out a coalition with Likud, but not if Netanyahu remained party leader.

But in a recording broadcast Monday evening by Channel 13, Gantz appeared to walk back that declaration — at least in a scenario where he, and not Netanyahu, becomes prime minister.

“I chose the words ‘given the circumstances’ [an apparent reference to his February 28 statement] in order not to completely close the door [on a coalition with Likud] and lock it. The door is closed, but not locked,” he told a group of close advisers in the recording, which the report said was made at a meeting sometime in March.

On Tuesday morning, Gantz released a statement saying that “the remarks in the recording were made before the full details of the grave indictment charges against Netanyahu were revealed [in the three corruption cases in which the prime minister is to be prosecuted, pending a hearing], and definitely before it turned out he received NIS 16 million in a round-trip trade on the submarines and lied to the public on serious security matters. (The Gantz recording appeared to have been made after Gantz’s February 28 statement, which itself was issued hours after the attorney general published his charge sheet against Netanyahu.)

“I am saying, not in an anonymous recording but openly and in my voice: I won’t sit with Netanyahu in the government!” he concluded Tuesday.

Even if he can't form a coalition? Hmm, that remains to be seen. Something tells me Gantz would rather be part of a coalition no matter the turnout, because power is just so important to him. Actually, what's really disturbing is the possibility he'd be willing to uproot more than 90,000 people from Judea/Samaria to fulfill his obsession with "peace" with the PLO that won't be reciprocated. In any event, Gantz is just full of hot air and nothing more than a clumsy oaf who can't posit a firm position or policy on anything. A totally pointless man who is, quite simply, a leftist who doesn't have the courage to admit it clearly. And he's not fit to be a politician.

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