The commander of the Galilee Division and former commander of the Southern Command, Major General Yom Tov Samia, was interviewed by 103FM regarding the functioning of the current government and its management of the campaign against Hamas and Hezbollah. In addition, he talked about the public letter that called for reaching an agreed date for elections, which was signed by dozens of former members of the security establishment, including himself.
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According to him: “I think the 100 days of grace have passed. We do not see before our eyes a government that plays like a concert and takes care of the war and the civilians and all the systems. There are entire systems that are collapsing, an inflated government with over 30 ministers and deputy ministers, budgets that are not related to anything, so there is Boundary. I was not among the crazy people who took the side that in the first week Netanyahu should resign and go and so on. 100 days have passed, I think any reasonable prime minister should have announced that immediately after the end of the war there would be elections and he would demand the people’s trust. Will he be re-elected? Fail, won’t he be re-elected? Someone else will be here.”
“Unfortunately, there is a dichotomy here. The management on the ground, in the field, is managed in my opinion by the Chief of Staff under the Minister of Defense with his champions in a very optimal way in a dichotomous manner different from October 7, which was a major disaster and was treated separately. Next to him are two cabinets and a cabinet, a limited cabinet and an expanded cabinet that is all full of one big chattel, there are leaks from it. There is no leadership there, nothing.”
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“Netanyahu doesn’t restrain any of them, not in his talk, not in his nonsense, not in his emissions, some of which brought us to The Hague,” he continued. “Look at how many crazy Knesset members and ministers of this coalition were quoted in The Hague the other day. There is no leadership here. Netanyahu is actually running an election campaign. We kept quiet for a week, two weeks, three, he is running a campaign from today and these are the results.”
“Why didn’t you vote no confidence?”, he was asked. “We tried to push for a vote of no confidence among the 8-5 members of the Knesset from the Likud, they are simply cowards. In chambers they tell you, ‘Yes, we must, you cannot divide Israeli society, you cannot continue to tear it apart,’ and all 8 are simply cowards, they They were simply afraid of being burned within the Likud.”
Referring to the lead-up to the elections, he said: “There are a lot of groups that are organizing and asking for it, not just us. By the way, a lot of Likud people and right-wing people. I’m a right-wing person, the fact that I’m not in Likud today is because I’m not able to be in today’s Likud, it’s not the Likud I grew up with A lot of right-wing people, a lot of people who think that this country is going in the wrong direction, and if you ask me theoretically, all the 120 Knesset members present should go home and a completely new generation of leadership should rise here.”
“He (Netanyahu) is suspicious of his security minister, he is suspicious of all his ministers, he doesn’t let anyone do anything. The ones he does let him do is because of fear of the dissolution of the coalition, of the crazies Smotrich and Ben Gvir, and where exactly are we going?” he said at the end The interview.
Assisted in the preparation of the article: Amitai Doak, 103fm