Netanyahu: Golan’s remark that Israel kills babies as a hobby reminds me of medieval blood libels

Turning to former IDF deputy chief of staff and current Democrats party leader Yair Golan’s much-panned accusation yesterday that Israel is killing Palestinian children for sport, Netanyahu calls the statement “appalling.”

“While our heroic soldiers are risking their lives in the Gaza Strip, in order to protect our country and to bring our hostages back, Yair Golan accuses them of war crimes,” he says, adding that it reminds him of medieval blood libels.

It is Hamas that kills children as a hobby, while Israeli soldiers are doing everything they can to avoid civilian casualties, insists Netanyahu. “There is no army that is more moral than the IDF in the world.”

Netanyahu says that those who defend Golan and repeat such charges fuel antisemitism and back Golan so as to bring down his government. They are willing to do anything to achieve that goal, he argues, including losing the ongoing war.

“Until the end,” he says, “until victory.”