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Saturday, February 25, 2023
Netanyahu: Opposition is sowing anarchy; Lapid: PM is inciting to violence
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses the opposition of seeking anarchy in the country while opposition leader Yair Lapid says the government is fomenting incitement.
“They are intending to create anarchy in the State of Israel and to harm its economy in order to bring a sixth election,” tweets Netanyahu. He says opposition leaders have been “silent in the face of explicit calls by protest leaders for bloodshed, using weapons, civil rebellion, assassinating the prime minister… they just cannot accept that they lost the election.”
Netanyahu says he is calling on “responsible voices in the opposition not to cooperate with this lawlessness” and instead to immediately enter “serious dialogue for the good of the citizens of Israel and the State of Israel.”
Lapid tweets to Netanyahu that “the time has come to end your lies.”
“Like all the important economists in the country and in the world have explained, you’re the one who is destroying the economy, you are the one who is dividing the nation, you are the one inciting to violence.”
Lapid adds that “we will not allow you to destroy the Israeli democracy and we have no intention to be quiet in the face of your poisonous incitement.”
The Times of Israel Community.