Following a raucous Knesset session in which Netanyahu and Herzog traded barbs, both the prime minister and head of the opposition continued sparring online through their Facebook pages.
A comment by opposition leader Isaac Herzog to a post by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Facebook, from December 16 2015. (Screen capture)
Netanyahu posted a video from the plenum and wrote: “MK Herzog, the time has come for you to condemn Breaking the Silence, an organization besmirching the image of soldiers around the world, blackening the face of the Israel Defense Forces, harming our fighters.”
Commenting on the video, Herzog wrote: “Bibi, in demagoguery you deserve a 10/10 score. In demagoguery we lose and you win for sure. But a prime minister is not a talking parrot. He needs to run a country. The time for talk is done. Deal with stopping Arab terrorism, restoring quiet to the streets and catching the Jewish terrorists from Duma, fight raging poverty, change the natural gas draft and mainly, for once in your career, start seeing people as people. In short: Start working, stop blabbering.”
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