Labor chief: Netanyahu government continuously harming Israel’s strategic standing

By Sam Sokol 9 May 2024, 10:49 am

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Sam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"

Labor party leader MK Merav Michaeli leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 29, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Outgoing Labor party chief Merav Michaeli slams Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his hard-right coalition following US President Joe Biden’s threat to withhold arms in the event of a full-on Rafah incursion.

“Netanyahu and his government continue to make Israel’s strategic situation worse and take us closer and closer to existential danger,” she tweets.

“This is what Netanyahu has done throughout his time in office. Now it is out in the open for all to see, and his sidekick is an embarrassing hilltop youth who only knows how to shout ‘I’m the boss around here,'” she writes, referring to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s tweet that “Hamas loves Biden.”

“Netanyahu is dangerous to Israel,” Michaeli adds.

Following Ben Gvir’s post, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid declared that “if Netanyahu does not fire Ben Gvir today, he is endangering every soldier in the IDF and every citizen in the State of Israel.”