MK Gideon Saar announced he was leaving partnership with the Blue and White party

The state camp party is disintegrating - and Gideon Sa'ar is establishing the "state right-wing": Minister Sa'ar announced on Tuesday evening that he has decided to end the partnership with the Blue and White party and said that he has contacted the chairman of the Knesset committee to immediately re-establish the New Hope faction - the state right wing in the Knesset "As an independent faction, which will clearly express the national and state worldview." Tomorrow the Knesset committee will meet to approve the request.
Sa'ar's movement held a conference of activists in Tel Aviv, where he revealed that he had decided to end the partnership with Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot. According to him, "the voice and positions of New Hope - the state right are not heard in the war cabinet" - and therefore he demanded to join the war cabinet. Currently, Sa'ar is preparing to run alone, and to add additional forces from the right map. According to the assessment, he has no intention of leaving the coalition, even if Gantz leaves. He returned and said that as long as the war is going on, he has no intention of leaving.
In recent months, relations between Sa'ar and Gantz have become very cold and they do not see eye to eye on many issues - and sources in the state camp even said that a lack of trust has developed between the two. Sa'ar is trying to return to the traditional right, while Gantz remains in the center of the political map.
Sa'ar has recently denied more than once that he has turned to Likud and hints that he intends to establish or integrate into another platform of the state right, the name of his new movement. It was clear in the political system that the partnership in practice had already ended a few months ago, and Sa'ar only gave it a final seal this evening.
Gantz's reaction on Twitter clearly showed those chilly relations. "Thank you and good luck," responded on the X network (formerly Twitter), in a two-word tweet. The same tweet is slightly reminiscent of Sa'ar's tweet 4.5 years ago - when he wrote "I am ready", after Netanyahu announced a Bezeq primary in Likud.
In addition to Sa'ar, the letter to the Knesset committee is signed by other members of Tikva Hadada - Minister Yifat Shasha Biton and MKs Ze'ev Elkin and Sharan Hashakal. Yesterday, a meeting was held between the four of them in Sa'ar's office in the Knesset, where the decision to part ways - and the demand for a place in the war cabinet - was formulated.
Sources in New Hope said that to the best of their knowledge Gantz and Sa'ar have not met face to face since joining the government, and if they had met Sa'ar would have informed Gantz. That is, Gantz first heard about the split from the media. MK Matan Kahane from the state camp responded: "I'm with Bnei and Gedi. We remain a center party with a strong right wing, which I'm sure will get even stronger in the future."
Sources close to Minister Itamar Ben Gabir said that "If Netanyahu complies with Sa'ar's demand to join the small cabinet, Minister Ben Gabir will also demand to join. We must change the concept of the small cabinet and lead to a decision." The first to respond from the Likud to Sa'ar's announcement was MK Hanoch Milbitsky, who said: "Sa'ar should be in the war cabinet."
In a statement, Sa'ar said: "For a long time, my friends and I have not hidden our criticism of the navigation of the campaign by the limited cabinet. There must be no connection between the goals set and the means taken to achieve them. We must not reduce the military pressure and slow down the progress in destroying Hamas forces and its rule. We must not allow Hamas to take over humanitarian aid".
"I respect my friends, the representatives of the state camp in the war cabinet, but unfortunately they do not express in it the voice, positions and emphasis that I would bring there," he added. "Therefore, on your behalf, I express here our demand to join the war cabinet and be part of the influence on policy."
Sa'ar explained the end of the partnership as follows: "Our voice, the voice of the state right is more essential today than ever. Israel today needs an alternative to the state right. If we do not lead this - I do not see anyone else who can do it. That is why I came to the decision: after consultation and on My friends to end the partnership with the Blue and White party and immediately re-establish the New Hope faction-the state right in the Knesset as an independent faction that will clearly express our national state worldview."
"I thank my sons and Gedi and the other friends for the period of joint work and believe that days will come when we will cooperate in the future as two separate political frameworks," he added. "From this moment on, I intend to act and join us with additional political forces that will lead to the formation of an alternative, and I emphasize an alternative of a strong political force of the right of the state, as a broad public wish would happen."