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‘Your legacy is the most serious security failure in Israel’s history,’ Liberman fumes after PM’s presser
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Former defense minister Avigdor Liberman, the leader of the hawkish Yisrael Beytenu opposition party, joins the chorus of criticism against Benjamin Netanyahu, following his Monday evening press conference in Jerusalem, arguing that the prime minister’s legacy is voting to approve the 2005 disengagement from Gaza and approving the transfer of “$10 million in cash to Hamas every month.”
“Your legacy is the release of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder of the Hamas organization, whom you released on September 30, 1997,” Liberman writes on X.
“Your legacy is the release of Yahya Sinwar and 1,026 other terrorists in October 2011. Your legacy is the vote to disengage and leave the Philadelphi Corridor on October 26, 2004… Your legacy is the most serious security failure in Israel’s history on October 7, 2023, the abandonment of the residents of the north and the establishment of a government that will be remembered for generations as the most failed government in the history of the Jewish people.”
