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Monday, November 10, 2025
Lapid rejects Netanyahu’s criticism of the 2022 maritime deal with Lebanon
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Hitting back at criticism from Opposition Leader Yair Lapid during the 40-signature debate in the Knesset, Prime Minister Netanyahu declares that his government has “changed the face of the Middle East.”
Netanyahu slams Lapid for having “surrendered” and handed Israel’s natural gas to Lebanon, a reference the a 2022 US-brokered maritime deal with Lebanon intended to end a long-running dispute over some 860 square kilometers (330 square miles) of the Mediterranean Sea, covering Israel’s Karish and Lebanon’s Qana gas fields.
“You gave Nasrallah the gas fields and we eliminated Nasrallah. That’s the difference between us. You complain about the composition of the government. You formed a government with the Muslim Brotherhood,” Netanyahu asserts — referring to the inclusion of the Islamist Ra’am party in Lapid’s short-lived government.
“I say that the people want leadership that guarantees the security, existence, and future of the State of Israel,” Netanyahu declares.
Lapid pushes back against criticism of the maritime deal, stating that Netanyahu had himself “agreed to a discussion on border amendments between Israel and Lebanon” before that deal was made.
“You talk about people having to vote for you because of security? …You brought the greatest disaster on the people of Israel since the Holocaust,” he continues.
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