Khaberni - Just days before the elections, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, in his first interview with foreign media since taking office four years ago, attributed the responsibility for the events of October 7 to Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials.
In the interview conducted today, Thursday, Ben Gvir discussed the war on Gaza and his plans to encourage voluntary migration from the sector.
The extensive interview was published in the American magazine "Time" under the title "Ben Gvir's plan to push Netanyahu to the right," with a black-and-white picture showing Ben Gvir.
At the beginning of the article, the interviewer, Eric Cortez, described him as "an extreme right-wing man, previously considered too extreme to serve in the Israeli army, now aiming to make Netanyahu more reliant on the extreme parties that call for Palestinians to leave Gaza and the West Bank, and to impose Israeli sovereignty over these lands."
"If Israel wants to survive and not be destroyed, we need to occupy all of Gaza. We have to encourage voluntary migration," argued Ben Gvir. "Gaza could become a Riviera. It is a beautiful place. But there can't be even one member of Hamas there."
The interview also mentioned that Ben Gvir "has become one of the most prominent voices on the Israeli right seeking to hold the military and intelligence establishment responsible for Netanyahu's failures on October 7th."
The minister said: "Even if Netanyahu is not infallible, and even if he made mistakes - and he indeed made mistakes - what brought him down on October 7th was our intelligence. The army, the intelligence officer, and Shabak. Everyone is guilty."
He added: "Netanyahu is not innocent of guilt, but there are many who are more guilty than him."
But Ben Gvir pointed out that he "wants Netanyahu as Prime Minister. He is a leader. I do not support him blindly and I am not from his entourage. But I prefer him a million times over Eisenkot. What will really help Netanyahu to be right-wing is that I, Ben Gvir, become a high-ranking minister, thus making the government entirely right-wing."
