Yair Golan, 61, former deputy chief of staff in Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says that his role “is to make sure we have an alternative to this disastrous [Netanyahu] government,” according to London’s daily The Guardian. Golan is now chair of Israel’s Democrats Party.
Golan declared: “I’m not sure whether Israel right now is truly a democratic state any more.… It is not a question of left or right any more: these titles are meaningless.” He said that today there are “people who think we can annex millions of Palestinians, and Israel should adopt some sort of policy of revenge, that we can live by our swords and not attempt to reconcile with the Palestinians or any other hostile entity in the region. I think 180 degrees the opposite.… Our vision is a two-state solution, but right now we are a nation in trauma. People lost their sense of security; people do not trust the IDF to protect them. We need to be proactive militarily, but at the same time we need to combine it with political vision.”
