Benjamin Netanyahu: General’s comments were ‘outrageous and cheapen the memory of the Holocaust’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not call for the dismissal of IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan for comments he made last week suggesting certain parallels between what happened in Nazi Germany and current developments in Israel, despite slamming Golan for those remarks on Sunday.
Netanyahu did not ask Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon to fire Golan, and does not plan to do so, according to government sources. Netanyahu and Golan are expected to meet on Monday at the traditional pre-Independence Day toast with the general staff.
Netanyahu broke sharply with Ya’alon on the issue Sunday and publicly chastised Golan.