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Lapid: Netanyahu had Hostage Square boos coming
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid says he was not surprised that prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s name was jeered at a hostage rally in Tel Aviv last night.
“I wasn’t shocked,” he tells the Kan public broadcaster. “If Netanyahu came to [Hostages] Square ever and if he didn’t manage a campaign against the families [of hostages], maybe they wouldn’t have booed him.”
Lapid also criticizes those who spoke out against the derision aimed at the premier, singling out Justice Minister Yariv Levin, who said those booing really owed Netanyahu thanks.
“As if they were doing the hostages a favor by returning them,” Lapid sneers.
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