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Lapid blames Netanyahu’s ‘failed management’ for Biden’s new stance
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid leads Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset on April 15, 2024. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid claims that US President Joe Biden’s threat to halt weapons transfers if Israel assaults Gaza’s Rafah is a result of “the failed management of the government of Israel.”
Speaking to Radio 103FM, Lapid argues that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government “moved the arguments to the public sphere,” adding: “The failure of this becoming a public disagreement during wartime is entirely on the government.”
“It wasn’t supposed to come to this,” he says. “The prime minister, one minute after the Americans give us $14 billion, stands at Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance Day and says that ‘If Israel has to stand alone, it will stand alone.’ The Americans were offended by this.”
