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Top opposition politicians slam government for failing to deliver security amid war
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Opposition Leader Yair Lapid and The Democrats chairman Yair Golan both slam the government during separate visits to the site of yesterday’s Iranian ballistic strike on a residential building in Haifa.
Offering his support and condolences to local residents and the families of those killed, Lapid tells reporters that “the State of Israel fights well but is managed poorly. Our soldiers are writing magnificent chapters in Lebanon as well, but [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu is again failing to reach a strategic resolution.”
“None of the war goals as he defined them are being achieved. It is time to ask where this is heading and why this government is never capable of winning a war,” Lapid states.
In a post on X from the scene, Golan says Israelis “must not accept a reality in which fighters and civilians pay heavy prices, but the government is not striving for a strategic resolution that will bring security.”
“The simple truth is that the Netanyahu-Smotrich-Goldknopf government is an obstacle to security,” he asserts, referencing Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and United Torah Judaism chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf.
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