Lapid slams Netanyahu: Ties with US ‘too important to turn them into public quarrels’

By ToI Staff 20 January 2024, 4:05 pm

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Opposition Head Yair Lapid blasts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the way he’s handled his most recent disagreement with Washington over the Gaza war, publicly rebuking the US for its push for Palestinian statehood in a combative press conference Thursday.

Lapid writes on X that as a former prime minister and foreign minister, “I had many arguments, some of them difficult, with the Americans. I just never managed them at press conferences and in front of cameras.”

Ties with the US “are too important to turn them into public quarrels whose only purpose is political gain” with Netanyahu’s right-wing base.

Lapid says it’s irresponsible “to do this during wartime, when the US stands by us.”