Protest leader: 'Netanyahu built Hamas, Sinwar doesn't want elections'

• Published date: 02 April 2024
• Author: 103FM
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Maariv's political reporter Matan Wasserman referred to the protests in a conversation on 103FM: "We saw a very high presence of protesters who express pain over the situation, which they say is perhaps the worst situation the country has ever been in, along with a desire to make a change. It started already on Shabbat evening; we saw a coalescence of protests, between the hostage protests and the political protests

Alongside that demonstration, a complex of hundreds of protest tents was set up in front of the Knesset. "They aspire to have a permanent presence in the Knesset," Wasserman said. "For the protesters, the goal is to reach elections."

'Hamas believes that the government of Netanyahu and the religious Zionists is the best for them'

Later, Moshe Redman, one of the leaders of the protest against the government, said on Ben Caspit and Yinon Magal's radio program that "The greatest gift to Hamas is [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu's rule. Hamas does not want elections. Netanyahu built [Hamas], and it brought him billions.

"This paralysis that gripped us on October 7, among other things, because [the toxic government] fostered the illusion that taking to the streets would harm security, the war, the hostages – the one harming them is Netanyahu and his government.

"If this government does not disappear from the world, we could keep going...