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Friday, May 10, 2024
Ben Gvir points finger at former PM Bennett for approving work permits for Gazans in 2022
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Amid a flurry of criticism for a short and contentious tweet about US President Joe Biden yesterday, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir takes to social media platform X again, this time to lash out at former prime minister Naftali Bennett.
Posting a screenshot of a 2022 tweet in which Bennett announced the approval of thousands of work permits for Palestinians in Gaza to work inside Israel, Ben Gvir writes, “Don’t go out into the sun Naftali, you’ve got a lot of butter on your head,” in an apparent reference to the former prime minister being bald.
Bennett served as prime minister from June 2021 to June 2022.
Ben Gvir was insinuating that Bennett bears part of the responsibility for Israel’s failure to prevent Hamas’s October 7 massacre, which the former prime minister already admitted in the weeks after the surprise onslaught.
In addition, the theory that some Gazan laborers had aided Hamas in its plans for the attack, in which terrorists killed some 1,200 people and kidnapped another 252, has been largely debunked.
Ben Gvir’s tweet came hours after CNN released an interview in which Bennett called the national security minister’s tweet yesterday “childish and infantile.”
The Times of Israel Community.