Gantz: Leaking of PM’s discreet trip irresponsible
Netanyahu: No defense minister made such political use of IDF
Displaying in the clearest terms to date that they can no longer remain in the same government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz escalated their attacks on each other in the Knesset on Monday.
Netanyahu lashed out at Gantz for forming a ministerial committee to probe the prime minister’s role in the purchase of submarines and other naval vessels. Gantz blasted Netanyahu for leaking a secret visit on Sunday to Saudi Arabia.
The prime minister did not inform Gantz, as defense minister, or Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, ahead of his flight to Saudi Arabia and even kept IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi in the dark, for fear he would tell Gantz.
Netanyahu continued the trend of not informing Gantz and Ashkenazi of key diplomatic developments, having kept them in ignorance of the agreements he reached with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Gantz criticized Netanyahu, not for leaving him uninformed of the pending Saudi visit, but for telling the world about it afterward.
“Leaking the secret flight of the prime minister was irresponsible,” Gantz told his Blue and White faction. “That is not what I would do as prime minister, and that is not how I have ever behaved. I think the citizens of Israel
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