Ben Gvir demands more authority and accuses Netanyahu of “excluding” his ministers from decisions

June 13. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Minister of National Security of Israel, Itamar Ben Gvir, has returned this Thursday to attack Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he has reproached for “excluding” his cabinet from decision-making and for blocking the expansion of the cabinet. war, once the departure of Benny Gantz was confirmed.

Ben Gvir has demanded through a public letter that he call a meeting of the security cabinet this Thursday and stop relegating it to the background in favor of a war cabinet made up of only two people after Gantz’s resignation and to which the Minister of Security himself has run for without success.

Thus, he has accused him of managing the war in the Gaza Strip in a hidden way, “through narrow forums” and “all in order to exclusively control decisions and avoid discussions that would challenge old ideas.”

“Mr. Prime Minister, the members of the cabinet are not decoration. Your partners in the government are not air. The situation in the north is unbearable and excluding the ministers and the cabinet from any discussion is unacceptable,” he said.

After Gantz resigned last Sunday from his position in the war cabinet – formed by Netanyahu himself and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant – Ben Gvir has been insisting on taking this place, as differences continue between the Government and its most far-right coalition partners.