Lapid: ‘Netanyahu’s government of disasters is our enemies’ dream’

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid opens the weekly faction meeting of his Yesh Atid party by saying that despite the claim of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that elections would be a gift to Israel’s enemies, the current government is the dream of the nation’s foes.

“Benjamin Netanyahu said this week that elections now are the dream of our enemies. It’s the opposite, sir, the opposite. The dream of our enemies is your government of disasters, and the dream of our enemies is that you will continue to serve as its head,” Lapid says.

“We have two choices. A bad, dangerous, decaying and toxic government, or elections that will lead to a good government, that will restore security to the people of Israel. There is nothing that scares [Hamas leaders] Sinwar and Haniyeh more than the fact that there will be an efficient, secure Israeli government with backing from the world, and a functioning economy.”

On Saturday, Netanyahu said that “general elections would mean the end of the war, [and] the defeat of Israel.”

This, he claimed, “is precisely the dream of [Hamas leader] Yahya Sinwar, precisely the dream of Hezbollah and precisely the dream of Iran… They’re just waiting for it.”

“All the cabinet members know this,” he added, implying that ministers seeking elections would thus be acting in the interests of the enemy.