Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded on Friday to the protest letters sent recently, supposedly in the name of reservist soldiers, and claimed that it is political propaganda from a “noisy minority.”
“Again the same letters,” said Netanyahu, “Sometimes in the name of pilots, of Navy veterans, and so on. The public no longer buys into their propaganda lies that are so impressive to the media. These letters were not written in the name of our heroic soldiers. They were written by a small group of thorns, who are operated by foreign-funded organizations with one goal – to overthrow the right-wing government.”
He claimed this is not a widespread phenomenon: “This is not a wave. This is not a current. This is a small, noisy, anarchistic, and disconnected group of retirees – most of whom haven’t served in years.”
Netanyahu added that the actions of these individuals encourage the Zionist entity’s enemies: “These thorns are trying to weaken the State of Israel and the IDF, and they are encouraging our enemies to harm us. They have already sent a message of weakness to our enemies once. We will not let them do it again.”
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu supports the dismissal of Israeli reservists who signed a letter urging an end to the Gaza war, calling them an extremist fringe group. pic.twitter.com/BTbTu8BEad
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The Israeli premier threatened that there would be “no tolerance” for refusal: “The citizens of Israel have learned the lesson – refusal is refusal, regardless of what fancy name is given to it. Anyone who encourages refusal will be dismissed immediately. The IDF fights, the IDF wins, and we are all behind it.”
After the protest in the Air Force and the Navy, another protest was published today by reservist officers in the 8200 intel unit active personnel, and retired officers, calling on the Israeli government to recover the captives and end the war in Gaza.
Source: Israeli media
