Gideon Saar: “We must stop beating ourselves on the chest and shouting our guilt, our iniquity, our sin”

The new chairman of Tikva, Minister Gideon Saar, said at a cabinet meeting on the war in Ukraine: “We need to stop beating ourselves up and shouting ‘We have sinned, we have sinned, we have sinned’. We have not sinned. We have not sinned. The humanitarian for Ukraine is significant, more than ours. We take a clear political position, including in votes in international forums. Refugees from Ukraine have entered Israel in the last week more than any other country with no border with Ukraine. Refugees: The role of the State of Israel is to absorb those entitled to the Law of Return here, and we must act and prepare to absorb immigration on a large scale.
There is also no problem in the reasonable absorption of non-Jewish refugees or those entitled to the Law of Return. They are entering Israel these days as well. But there is no reason for the national masochism that is reflected in the discourse. “