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Friday, March 21, 2025
Liberman: By firing Shin Bet chief, Netanyahu ‘doing exactly what our enemies dream of’
Opposition Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman tears into the government for voting to fire Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar “amid a war against all our enemies.”
“The prime minister of October 7 [Benjamin Netanyahu] is doing exactly what our enemies dream of — fighting the Shin Bet head,” Liberman says. “[Netanyahu] needed to take responsibility after the disaster, resign first and demand all those to blame for the failure join him.”
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid says the government is dismissing Bar “for one reason alone: To stop the Qatargate investigation.
“Opposition parties will together appeal this reckless step that is meant to whitewash a hostile state’s penetration into the prime minister’s office,” Lapid charges.
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