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Saturday, December 14, 2024
Lapid says government has no standing to criticize ex-prosecutor on ‘crossing a red line’
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 criticizes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of his cabinet over their harsh condemnations of former state attorney Moshe Lador, who earlier today called for Israeli Air Force pilots to stop volunteering for reserve duty if the government resumes its controversial judicial overhaul plan.
While he “completely condemns” Lador’s comments, the “festival of condemnations…would have been more credible if this government had not forcibly dragged us back to October 6 and the days of the legal coup that brought us to the greatest disaster in our history,” Lapid declares.
“Is the government of disasters talking about crossing a red line? It crosses every possible red line every day,” he declares — adding that “of course, I am against all insubordination and evasion.”
