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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.
The Times of Israel Community.