Zionist Union and Labor party chair Avi Gabbay slams “those who cannot mourn” the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, in comments apparently directed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a day after he clashed with the slain premier’s granddaughter at a memorial service marking his murder.
“The murder was political. This we will continue to say without stammering and without apologizing,” Gabbay tells his faction meeting in the Knesset.
Netanyahu used his speech at the Knesset memorial ceremony for Yitzhak Rabin on Sunday to hit back at claims made by Noa Rothberg earlier in the day that an official in the current Prime Minister’s Office had branded her grandfather a “traitor.”
“This is unfortunately an example of how sometimes, during the discourse on fighting incitement and moderation speech, baseless claims are made, not only against me but an entire community, that have no basis in reality,” Netanyahu said, rebuffing long-made allegations that he contributed to the incendiary political climate that led to the 1995 murder.
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