The Likud party and Jewish Home chief Naftali Bennett condemn the joint statement by veteran security officials urging Netanyahu to cancel his speech to Congress.
“This is a recycled account by those same generals, leftists who promised peace with Oslo, supported the disengagement [from Gaza in 2005], supported the Arab Peace Initiative which calls for dividing Jerusalem, and promoted withdrawals from Judea and Samaria [a biblical term for the West Bank] and the Golan Heights,” the Likud party said in a statement. “Today they were representatives of the huge left-wing campaign, sponsored — with millions of dollars — by leftists from abroad.”
Bennett, too, listed the various political initiatives backed by these security veterans — the Oslo Accords, withdrawal from Gaza and the Golan Heights — and says “you were wrong” with regard to all three.
“Why should we listen to you this time?” he writes on Facebook.
Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, leader of the Jewish Home party, speaks during an interview to The Associated Press in Jerusalem, Monday, February 16, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Tsafrir Abayov)
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