Following Netanyahu’s AIPAC speech, the Zionist Union’s Shelly Yachimovich urges the prime minister to pack up and go home and call off tomorrow’s speech to Congress.
“Bibi, go home,” she writes on Facebook. “The AIPAC speech was acceptable and welcome.”
“Give up on the theatrical gestures, the punchlines, and go home. There is no doubt that it will serve our interests more than any bragging speech to Congress,” she continues. “Don’t let your narrow political interests damage the Israeli efforts to halt the Iranian nuclear program. Cancel your destructive speech to Congress, which may (or may not) save you from your crisis in the polls, but will harm the state.”
“In your speech you said you don’t want Israel to become a partisan issue in America, that there should be no political rift. That’s like cracking an egg over a frying pan, mixing it, turning on the fire, and saying you don’t want an omelet.”
Former Labor party leader Shelly Yachimovich on December 17, 2014 (Photo credit: Amir Levy/Flash90)
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