Bereaved Families' Representative Says Eisenkot Promised Not to Approach Arabs for Gove...

I have to tell you that we're very upset.

I'm upset, and I have to tell you that all the members

of the forum

of our bereaved families are very, very upset about this whole

issue. It makes no sense that supporters of terrorists—

they're not supporters of terrorism,

supporters of terrorists in every sense, they helped them.

We conducted an investigation, brought it to the Election Committee.

Some people are surprised now by the bribery.

We're not surprised by the bribery, not surprised by any of this.

We knew. It was all out in the open.

They're not hiding anything, and a party like that, which

supports terrorists, will sit in the Israeli Knesset.

I'm not talking about sitting in the Israeli government.

That's completely intolerable to us. I'm telling you, our forum

is really upset about this story. The thing is, we

On September twenty- second, I met with Eisenkot.

We went as a group and brought

him a thousand pages of our forum's investigation into Ram.

We came and said, "Come see who Ram is. Come see before— you say

You won't sit with them. Fine.

Come see, so you'll understand why you're not allowed

to sit with them. They're—listen, these people should have been in prison.

If there were any law in our country,

these people would be sitting in an Israeli prison.

I'm talking to you about all the heads of Ra'am

because they're criminals. They, they helped Hamas in every way.

They transferred funds, they transferred money to ten organizations

that were outlawed in Israel, transferred funds, it's all proven, all of it

in the investigations, it's all black and white,

and the system ignores it.

How did Eisenkot respond to these things at that meeting?

So he said to us, he said to me, he said, "Merav, look me in the eyes.

I'm not going to sit with an Arab—I'm not going to sit with any Arab.

I'm not going to tell any, any Arab to come,

I'm not going to approach any Arab." That was

his exact words: "Let him come to the government."

Now, we told him, we just issued a call.

You said you wouldn't,

wouldn't approach any Arab, that no Arab should

sit with him in the government.

Now you're going to form a government for us with the supporters of

terrorism

Here. We brought you the cleanest investigation.

We didn't come, we didn't tell you anything.

Look who you're going to sit with.

You know what saddens me, Merav? Four years ago, exactly the same

thing happened to you.

No, no, no.

So it was Naftali Bennett who promised

you security.

No, it's not the same story.

With Naftali Bennett, we believed he was a right- winger.

We knew Eisenkot wasn't a right- winger.

We knew he'd form a government with them, with a chance of

success. We wanted to bring him the proof.

Sir, sit down and see who you're going to form a government with.

He sits there and tells you to your face, “I'm not sitting with them.”

He wouldn't sit with any Arab.

Those are his exact words— that's his quote.

Look— He told me more than that. He said to me, “Look me

in the eyes.” That's what he said.

And I was there, Herzl, and other bereaved families were there too.

“Look me in the eyes.”

Boaz Kokia was there too, and that's how it was.

Could it be that now he's just talking to the camera and

doesn't really intend to sit with them, as he promised

you? Do you think so?

No, no. I’m my own fear. The way I see things, they don’t see

eye to eye. They don’t see eye to eye. He sat in the coalition, he sat with

everyone, they don’t see eye to eye. You know what?

A state commission of inquiry. He’ll decide, he’ll do it.

We’ve been blinking for three years. There’s no need for broad consensus.

No, sorry, we’ve done nothing for three years.

They’ll come in with a bang.

Even if there’s a commission, if they’re in—

They’ll take power for a short time, replace things, they’ll do it.

They don’t blink, they come prepared with worksheets,

they come to work, they come to do

things, to change things that will take us years afterward,

if we can even

change it. If they establish a state commission of inquiry here,

where have we been for three

years? Why are we talking about broad consensus,

about broad consensus, broad consensus

when they’re not even there.

And so, in this situation.