Gantz's no. 2 tells left-wing activists: You dismantled state

Roi Konkol, former adviser to Yair Lapid and the fourth candidate on Benny Gantz's Blue and White party list, has sparked a storm on social media after a sharp exchange with left-wing protest activists.

The clash began when one activist wrote sarcastically: "Do you think the State of Israel will continue to exist if you don't pass the electoral threshold? I'm really worried about an immediate collapse if we don't see your light."

Konkol responded: "The State of Israel will be here long after you and me. You can continue with the cynicism, but when I was lying in Gaza and Lebanon, you dismantled the state, and there's no way in the world I'll let you do it again."

Another protest activist attacked Konkol over the remark: "Gantz's number two: the protest people dismantled the state. They've moved from Amit Segal's talking points to Yotam Zimri's talking points. They have another two weeks to get to treason from within and the spy from Southern Command."

Left-wing figure Roi Naaman wrote to Konkol: "Bro, I'm sad about what's become of you." Konkol replied: "I'm also very sad that after October 7 you're still stuck in the same political conception. Even someone who proposes unity, you choose to attack with violence and hatred, so don't preach morality to me."

Naaman continued: "My brother, you're not proposing unity, you're writing to good people, even if you don't agree with them, that they dismantled the state. Your brain got screwed, forgive me. One day you'll look at the things you're writing and be ashamed of them."

"Good people?" Konkol wondered. "Go through the feed a bit, my friend. It's a violent poison machine dripping with hatred. Yes, that's exactly how you dismantle a state. Two sides of the same coin. Just want to keep fighting and despising each other. And spare me your condescension. I know exactly who I am and what I am and what I've been through.

"My brain definitely got messed up from what all these 'good people' are doing to this country."