Meretz leader slams fellow opposition parties for baiting PM into war

12 November 2018, 3:13 pm

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Meretz chairwoman Tamar Zandberg says Yesh Atid and Zionist Union chairmen have “joined the war-mongers” by criticizing Netanyahu from the right for allowing Qatari transfer of millions to Hamas.

“It is tempting to attack Bibi’s hypocrisy regarding Hamas… and indeed (Yair) Lapid and (Avi) Gabbay did not resist the temptation, joining the warmongers and tried to attack him from the right,” she tells reporters ahead of her faction meeting.

Netanyahu and the government must do everything in their power to avoid war, and it is good that at the end of last week they did so (by allowing the transfer).”

“War is more dead soldiers, more children in shelters. It is a last resort. The alternative to war is only a political solution,” she adds.