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Monday, July 15, 2024
Likud accuses Lapid of ‘bringing the next political murder closer’
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party accuses Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid of refusing to condemn incitement against him after the opposition leader called the premier a “crybaby and a coward” for holding a two-hour discussion in the cabinet about the issue.
“Lapid and company refuse to condemn the acts of incitement and the calls for the assassination of the prime minister and his family members. Lapid’s silence normalizes the violence and brings the next political murder closer,” a spokesman for Likud charges in a statement to the press.
Following this weekend’s assassination attempt against former US president Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs screened a compilation of video clips showing critics of the government engaging in “incitement against the prime minister” during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.
