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Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Lapid: Netanyahu has ‘gone off the rails’ with claim that ‘deep state’ being weaponized against him
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. 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"
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party accuses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of having “gone off the rails,” after the premier posted a tweet accusing an alleged “deep state” of weaponizing the justice system against him.
“Netanyahu has completely lost it. He’s gone off the rails” and is “spreading dangerous conspiracies, undermining the rule of law, and slandering Israel,” the centrist party tweets from its official account. “He is in panic mode. He knows that his inner circle is mired in foreign interests and that the truth will be revealed. This is not leadership, this is a dangerous and embarrassing panic.”
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