Senior Israeli Government Official Threatens To Resign

Dramatic. Minister Gantz issues an ultimatum to Netanyahu: develop a strategy designed to achieve six goals by June 8, or he will resign.

Gantz six conditions that the strategic plan must meet:

1. Bring home the hostages.

2. Topple the rule of Hamas, demilitarize the Gaza Strip, and ensure Israeli security control.

3. Establish an American-European-Arab-Palestinian civil administration that will manage civilian affairs in the Gaza Strip and lay the foundation for an alternative in the future that is neither Hamas nor Abbas.

4. Return the Israeli residents of the north to their homes by September 1 and revitalize life in the Western Negev.

5. Promote normalization with Saudi Arabia as part of a comprehensive move that will create an alliance with the free world and the Arab world against Iran.

6. Adopt a general outline regarding reform of the military draft that will result in all Israelis serving the state and contributing to the national effort.