National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir appealed to Prime Minister Netanyahu to include another member in the limited cabinet who was not part of what he called the “preconception camp,” as he put it.
In a letter he sent to Netanyahu, Ben Gvir wrote: “As a member of the coalition, a senior member in the government, and a cabinet member, I accepted your one-sided decision on the forming of the ‘limited cabinet,’ which does not include me – the National Security Minister, and not any other minister expressing a different way of thinking, but rather solely specific people you chose personally.”
"I respect your decision, even if I don’t agree with it, and I do not intend to clash on the subject. This, despite the fact that the position of an enormous voting public, which put its trust in us and asked us to represent us, should also be heard in the limited cabinet, as well. However, it cannot be that all ministers of the limited cabinet be solely from the ‘preconception camp,’ those who for years claimed that Hamas is deterred, that the bribery payments to the terror organization will bring quiet, those who cultivated the containment policy and sowed illusions which led to our current situation.”
Ben Gvir added that “another voice must be heard in the limited cabinet, which was not part of the shattered preconception. In the name of national responsibility, and in the name of hundreds of thousands of voters, tens of thousands of whom serve in enlisted, regular, and reserve service, I hereby demand that the limited cabinet include a member, and even an observer, who was not part of that ‘preconception camp.’ As far as I am concerned, you, Mister Prime Minister, should determine his identity, so long as another voice is heard, which is not part of the mistaken approach we were dragged into for years.”
