Yair Golan — interview, “Unite the Left, topple Netanyahu's government” (Jerusalem Post), 3 March 2024 (English rendering of Hebrew)

(On October 7, after a call that Hamas had begun to invade towns near Gaza, Golan launched a one-man rescue mission; reflecting on that day, he remembers one feeling: rage.) "I remember the moment. […] The feeling that came up was terrible rage, terrible anger. […] I am not angry at Hamas. Hamas hates us and is a murderous enemy, I did not expect anything else. I am angry at ourselves. How did we let a corrupt government crumble us from within? […] Why did we not have the courage, the fortitude, the determination, to bring down the government before the war?"

"We must rehabilitate Israeli solidarity not around a messianic group or a corrupt group, but around the values of the Declaration of Independence — a state that is honest, liberal, democratic, free; that respects the humanity of every person, and calls on Israeli-Arab civilians to participate in building the land."

"In order for there to be an exit strategy […], the government must be replaced. In order to replace the government, we cannot wait until 2026 […]. This must happen tomorrow morning. […] I intend to form the political entity that will fight and struggle for this."

"The coalition today is made up of people who are corrupt, extreme nationalists, and religious fundamentalists. You do not build a state this way. […] the state must be rebuilt on opposite values — honesty and fairness, democratic, liberal moderacy."

(On the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:) "There are only two options — annexation or separation. […] Separation, from my perspective, means saving the State of Israel and the ability for it to exist as the national home for all of the Jewish people […] while at the same time keeping it a free, egalitarian, and democratic country. Reject separation and adopt the idea of annexation, and what we will receive here is a messianic dictatorship."