Speaking at the state ceremony marking 23 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the former prime minister’s grandson lambastes Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the Israeli premier is “breaking” the country.
“A leadership that encourages segregation and violent attacks against other opinions, one that drives and incites by defining and cataloging anyone who thinks differently as a ‘sourpuss’ or a ‘leftist’ is breaking us apart and will bring about the next destruction,” says Yonatan Ben Artzi.
During a speech last year in the Knesset, Netanyahu attacked the opposition and media as “pickles” over their purported sour outlooks.
Ben Artzi continues, arguing that “a leadership that mocks and disparages citizens who feel distress (over Israel’s current situation) is the source of the same evil (involved in Rabin’s assassination), and it will deepen the rift, division and internal conflict in this country.”
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