Lapid again calls for inquiry of PM’s conduct regarding Iran deal

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid repeats his call that PM Netanyahu’s “failure” in fighting the Iran deal be investigated by a commission of inquiry.

“The number of Democrat senators who announced they will support the nuclear deal with Iran has risen to 41,” Lapid said. “Among them are 8 out of the 10 Jewish senators. This means two things: First, an Obama veto will not even be necessary to pass the deal. Secondly, all of Netanyahu’s theories crashed and it looks like he was wrong all along the way.”

Lapid said Netanyahu “dragged” Israel to confrontation with the White House “for nothing, and for nothing he split and tore apart the Jewish communities. For nothing he turned Israel a satellite of the Republican Party […] for nothing he hurt the power of pro-Israel lobby AIPAC.”

Lapid says he sent the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee a letter in which he demanded “an extensive inquiry” into the “failed and dangerous process” Israel conducted with the American. “If Netanyahu believes he acted properly, why is he so afraid of such an inquiry and prevents the committee chairman, Tzachi Hanegbi, from instructing that it begin?” Lapid asks.

“It needs to be looked into, and we need that at the end of the inquiry a public report be published so that the Israeli public will know how the (justified) struggle against the nuclear deal was conducted, carelessly and irresponsibly, in a way that caused significant harm to the security of the State of Israel,” Lapid says.