Former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot said his son, Gal, who was killed in Gaza, and other soldiers have paid with their lives because of the government's political and ideological considerations.
In an interview with Kan public radio, Eisenkot said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "government is a government that is running away from its responsibility and is not worthy of Gal...not worthy of many combat soldiers and, unfortunately, also the hostages - who lost their lives because of cowardice and political hesitation and because of political and ideological considerations of those who want to return to the settlement of the Gaza Strip and see big dreams and a miracle manifest in complete opposition to the goals of the war."
Eisenkot also said Opposition MK Benny Gantz, his former political partner, was "making a bitter mistake" when he proposed to join the Netanyahu government to advance a hostage deal. According to him, "What is needed is to politically and publicly push Netanyahu to make the obvious decision that he has been running away from for over a year and do everything to replace him. And here we need all the good forces in the state of Israel to replace this bad government to build an alternative government that will get the state of Israel back on track."
