The April 9 election will be a choice between a "weak left-wing government" under Blue and White list co-leaders Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz or a strong, right-wing Likud government under my leadership, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a meeting of Likud ministers and MKs on Sunday.
"The media will do everything so the Left will win. They waited for an advisor, and now the mountain has become a molehill, and that molehill will soon vanish," Netanyahu said.
"Gantz and Lapid are trying to hide and camouflage that they are leftists. The media is trying to hide all sorts of things about Gantz, and not what you think. They are hiding the fact that a year after Operation Protective Edge, Gantz took part in a memorial ceremony for 1,000 Hamas terrorists killed during [the operation.] Look at what the media is hiding about Gantz – that's Left," the prime minister warned.
According to Netanyahu, "Gantz says he endangered Golani soldiers to avoid harming Palestinians – that's Left. And today we hear that Lapid and Gantz and saying that they won't sit with us in a coalition, but [they will] with Arab MK Ahmad Tibi.
"Their entire strategy is based on Lapid and Gantz being 'not Left.' If we make the truth clear to the public, the Likud can close the gap and win," Netanyahu said.
Also on Sunday, chairman of the New Right party Naftali Bennett announced that his party would not support a law that would prevent Netanyahu from facing trial if Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit indicts him.
"Despite the report that we will sit [in a government] with Netanyahu, until there is a final indictment, there's nothing to discuss," Bennett said.
