Bennett: ‘We’re in a state of national emergency. Israel must form a government’
Of central concern to Bennett is the impact the political situation is having on Israeli preparedness to confront Iranian aggression.
By World Israel News Staff
“Everything is shut down,” New Right party chairman Naftali Bennett said on Israel’s Channel 12’s Meet the Press program on Saturday evening.
“We need to establish a government. We have 1,200 classes that aren’t built at the moment because the money stopped flowing,” said the former education minister.
Of central concern to Bennett is the impact the political situation is having on Israeli preparedness to confront Iranian aggression. Insisting it was an Iranian initiative that led to the recent rocket strikes from Gaza over the weekend (according to reports, Iranian proxy Islamic Jihad was behind the rockets), Bennett said Iran wants to create a “ring of strangulation” around Israel.
“Iran’s national mission at the moment is to surround the State of Israel from Lebanon through Syria and Iraq and Gaza with hundreds of thousands of rockets and precision missiles in order to strangle us,” he said.
He said the combination of U.S. withdrawal from Syria, depriving the area of a “regional policeman,” and the shutdown in Israel due to the domestic political situation sends a message of weakness on which the Iranians are capitalizing.
“I would say we’re in an event of national emergency,” he said.
“I am ready to do anything to help [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and [Blue and White leader Benny] Gantz establish a national emergency government,” Bennett said. “If I am a barrier to forming a government, I release Netanyahu from any commitment to me. The main thing is that a government will emerge.”
Regarding rumors that Netanyahu is considering appointing him defense minister, Bennett said he hadn’t heard from any official source about it and only read the reports on Saturday evening.
He said he would weigh any such offer. However, he stressed that forming a government was the important thing, even if “only for two years.”
“We must not go to a third election,” he said, adding “If we don’t establish a government in the two weeks remaining to Gantz, in my opinion it’s elections.”
班纳特：“我们处于国家紧急状态。以色列必须组成一个政府
贝内特最关心的是政治局势对以色列准备应对伊朗侵略的影响。
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“一切都被关闭了，”新右翼政党主席纳夫塔利·贝内特（Naftali Bennett）周六晚在以色列12频道的“会见新闻界”节目中说。
“我们需要建立一个政府。前教育部长说：“由于资金停止流动，我们目前有1200个班级没有建成。
贝内特最关心的是政治局势对以色列准备应对伊朗侵略的影响。贝内特坚称，这是伊朗的一项主动行动，导致最近加沙在周末发动火箭袭击（据报道，火箭背后是伊朗的代理人伊斯兰圣战组织），他说，伊朗希望在以色列周围制造一个“勒死之环”。
他说：“伊朗目前的国家任务是用数十万枚火箭弹和精确导弹从黎巴嫩经叙利亚、伊拉克和加沙包围以色列国，以扼杀我们。”
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他说，美国从叙利亚撤军，剥夺该地区一名“地区警察”，以及以色列因国内政治局势而关闭，这些因素共同传递出伊朗人正在利用的软弱信息。
他说：“我想说，我们遇到了国家紧急情况。
贝内特说：“我准备尽一切努力帮助（总理本杰明）内塔尼亚胡和（蓝白领袖本尼）甘茨建立国家紧急政府。”“如果我是组建一个政府的障碍，我会解除内塔尼亚胡对我的任何承诺。最主要的是，一个政府将会出现。”
关于内塔尼亚胡正在考虑任命他为国防部长的传闻，贝内特说，他没有从任何官方渠道获悉此事，只是在周六晚上阅读了有关报道。
他说他会考虑任何这样的提议。不过，他强调，组建政府是重要的事情，即使“只有两年时间”。
他说：“我们决不能参加第三次选举，如果我们在甘茨剩下的两周内不建立一个政府，我认为这就是选举。”