Ex-Israeli Def. Minister blasts Gaza disengagement, warns against Palestinian state

Ex-Israeli Def. Minister blasts Gaza disengagement, warns against Palestinian state

Former Defense Minister Benny Gantz, chief of the center-left National Unity party, criticizes the 2005 Gaza withdrawal and warns against establishment of a Palestinian state. By World Israel News Staff A senior leader of the Israeli Opposition warned that establishing a Palestinian state would harm Israeli security, and expressed support for the continued presence of the IDF in the Gaza Strip, Judea and Samaria, in southern Lebanon, and in part…

The chairman of the state camp, Benny Gantz, claimed that "the new coalition crisis is very worrying," in his remarks he referred to the issue of the ultra-Orthodox sector's conscription law. The post Benny Gantz: "The new coalition crisis is very worrying" appeared first on srugim.

Gantz: Talk of Palestinian state ‘detached from security reality’

(May 6, 2025 / JNS) Opposition National Unity Party leader Benny Gantz on Tuesday called Israel’s 2005 disengagement from Gaza a “strategic error,” warning that renewed discussions of a Palestinian state or territorial withdrawals are “detached from security reality.” Speaking at the Makor Rishon Settlement Conference in Ofra, Gantz stressed the importance of maintaining full Israeli security control in key strategic areas. “We must maintain ful…