Lapid to Netanyahu: You’re not landlord of the Knesset, this is the people’s house

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid responds to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech during a special Knesset plenum session.

“We paid for the chair you’re sitting on now. It’s not yours. It’s the Israeli citizens’. You’re not the landlord here. You’re a wage worker,” Lapid says. “You know why the protesters are coming to Balfour [the Prime Minister’s Residence]? Because they’re the landlords. This isn’t your house, it’s their house. They came to tell you the lease is over.”

He also rejects Netanyahu’s assertion that the ongoing protests against the premier outside his official residence in Jerusalem are strictly political.

“They won’t fire you because they’re leftists. They won’t fire you because they’re anarchists or spreaders of disease, or any other of the ugly names you called them. They’ll fire you for one very simple reason… because you don’t do good work. Once you did, but no longer,” Lapid says.