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Gantz: After 13-year rule, Israel in danger of Netanyahu ‘becoming an Erdogan’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePrime ministerial candidate Benny Gantz lashes out at Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the premier is taking “extremist” steps in his election campaign that “harm Israeli democracy and take the discourse to low places that the political system in Israel has never known.”
In an interview with the Ynet news site, Gantz likens Netanyahu to Turkey’s autocratic Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has arrested thousands of dissidents and journalists and made far-reaching constitutional changes to ensure his continued rule.
“After 13 years [in power] we are in danger of Bibi becoming an Erdogan. It’s a danger to Israel democracy,” he says, using Netanyahu’s popular nickname.
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