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Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Lapid says PM won’t go to Egypt to seal hostage deal because ‘he no longer has a soul’
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won’t go to Egypt himself to ensure a hostage release deal is signed because “he no longer has a soul.”
“If Netanyahu is so convinced of his negotiating capabilities, he should travel to Egypt and sit there himself until a deal is reached. This is what a responsible prime minister should do when the lives of his citizens are important to him,” Lapid says in a statement.
“The only reason he doesn’t do this is because he no longer has a soul,” he adds.
The statement appears to be a response to a Channel 13 report that quoted the prime minister saying he “knows well how to conduct negotiations” with Hamas, arguing that he has “conducted negotiations with the Histadrut” labor federation.
