OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)
Israeli minister Gideon Saar said on Monday he had resigned from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency unity government.
“I believed and I still believe – that [our goals] are ambitious but achievable,” and “but under Netanyahu, military progress has slowed down, prolonging the campaign,” he says.
“But I cannot bear responsibility as long as I have no practical possibility to influence the direction of policy. I just don’t see any use in it anymore. We did not come to the government to warm chairs. We came to the government – which we opposed – to help the people of Israel in a difficult time.”
In a reaction to the resignation, Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far-right finance minister and chairman of the Religious Zionist Party, said that Saar’s decision “weakens the soldiers and the continuation of the war”.
