Opposition Leader Yair Lapid chastises Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for comments he reportedly made yesterday that the Oslo Accords caused as many deaths as Hamas’s savage assault on Israel on October 7.
“The State of Israel is at war. We are all going from one funeral to the next, from shiva to shiva. The soldiers are fighting heroically. The heart breaks anew every morning in front of the pictures of those killed,” says Lapid.
“It is impossible to understand the level of disconnect and cynicism of the prime minister, who is conducting a wicked political campaign during wartime whose entire purpose is to absolve himself of responsibility, to accuse others, and to create hatred. The nation deserves alternative leadership.”
Speaking to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Ministry in a closed-door session, Netanyahu reportedly said that the Oslo Accords caused as many deaths as the October 7 attacks, “though over a longer period.”
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