Yair Golan: I will sit with anyone except for the corrupt and the messianic elements

Labor Party leader Yair Golan spoke to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and said that “what happened in Lebanon is a good manifestation for the fact that we are countering a massive Iranian front against Israel, composed by Hezbollah, Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria, and the Houthis from Yemen, as well as the Hamas and the Jihadist Islam heavily supported by Iran in the Gaza Strip.”

He added that “it symbolizes the fact that Israel is in the front line of the international liberal democratic front against the most fundamentalist religious fanatic jihadist elements in the world.”

Golan opined that an escalation in the north can be avoided. “We need to reach a hostage deal in the south as soon as possible. We need to reach a ceasefire in the south as soon as possible. There are chances, reasonable chances that -- by ceasefire in the south, we will gain a ceasefire in the north and we will be able to conduct the political internal process in order to replace the untrusted -- this untrusted government and in order to be well prepared for future challenges from the north and from the elsewhere.” READ MORE