Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a press conference moments ago together with his Minister of Defence, Yoav Gallant, to announce the establishment of a \u201cGovernment of National Emergency\u201d together with the opposition Blue and White Party led by a former IDF chief of staff and defence minister Benny Gantz who also took part. The press conference came after Netanyahu spoke personally for the fourth time since the Hamas attack. \u201cThe Jewish (Israel) Nation is united and now its leadership is also united,\u201d declared Netanyahu.<\/p>\n
Calling Hamas worse than ISIS, Netanyahu listed some of the atrocities committed on Saturday including the burning of people alive. He added that every family in Israel is in some way connected to a victim of the attacks. \u201cWe will all fight together for our home,\u201d he added and described the \u201cunprecedented\u201d support that Israel has received from world leaders. \u201cWe have gone on the offensive\u2026 Every member of Hamas is a dead man,\u201d he declared. Netanyahu concluded by saying that all of Israel stands behind its soldiers and that Israel will win. \u201cWe are all one, we are all enlisting, we have all enlisted [in the fight],\u201d declared Benny Gantz.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is only one camp, the camp of the Nation of Israel,\u201d he said adding that the new partnership with Netanyahu is not a political one, but one of fate. \u201cAll of Israel is under an Order Number 8 (the order sent to reservists for an emergency wartime call-up),\u201d said Gantz adding that such unity in government is what the Israeli people want and need. But Gantz\u2019s block has only 12 of the 56 opposition seats in the Knesset. The largest faction, the Yesh Atid Party led by Yair Lapid, has 24 seats. Interestingly, both Gantz and Netanyahu concluded their individual remarks by quoting passages from the Bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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