An Israeli hero of Oct. 7, Major-General Yair Golan, yesterday called upon various Israeli political parties to join together to remove Prime Minister Netanyahu. He called for the National Unity party of Benny Gantz—formerly, the primary member of Netanyahu’s War Cabinet—and the center-left Yesh Atid party of Yair Lapid, to join in a pre-election merger with his own Democrat party, to challenge Netanyahu’s extremist alliance, including the “ethnic cleansers,” Bezalel Smotrich’s National Religious Party and Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Jewish Power Party. Golan stated: “We—The Democrats, Lapid, Gantz, [Gadi] Eisenkot, [Avigdor] Liberman, and [Naftali] Bennett, once he officially joins [the race]—we are all on the same side. This is our common ground. This is the next unity government.”
The day before, Golan had called out those who tried to silence him as being led by Netanyahu, whom he identified as the man most responsible for the Nov. 4, 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the plunge toward today’s “ethnic cleansing” war crimes.
Otherwise, as the Times of Israel put it, yesterday Golan emphasized the need to rebuild Israel’s political, security and democratic backbone. He said that the only viable path forward includes ending the war against Hamas, securing the return of the hostages held in Gaza, and pursuing a clear diplomatic horizon regarding the Palestinians.
