Jon Polin, whose son Hersh Goldberg-Polin was murdered last year in Hamas captivity, pans Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the ongoing war in addition to his broader conduct as of late.
“Not everything is political. Some things are simply human. The exemplary people of Israel deserve more. Do things with broad consensus. Bring back our 59 loved ones. Accept responsibility, say ‘I’m sorry,’ [establish a national commission of inquiry, [advance] a fair sharing of national service,” Polin tweets, without naming Netanyahu.
“Enough with the division, stop blaming, stop dividing, stop ignoring the will of the people, enough with the paranoid TikTok videos,” he says, an apparent reference to the videos Netanyahu has been posting on social media in which he rails against the “deep state” and dismisses the allegations against his aides in the ongoing Qatargate probe
“Why vacation during war? We Israelis deserve better,” Polin says of Netanyahu’s decision to extend his diplomatic trip so that he and his wife can spend the weekend in Hungary at the Israeli tax-payer’s expense while 59 hostages remain in captivity.
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