Release date: 2024/12/21 (Last updated: 2024/12/21 23:42)
TEL AVIV – TOGETHER – Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid vowed to overthrow Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in a speech to about 1,000 demonstrators on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening.
“We will not accept any compromises, we will not bow down, we will not surrender, and we will never enter the government,” Lapid said in a speech described as “fierce” by Israeli newspaper The Times of Israel. . It “held a destructive and illegitimate minority government for two years.”
Lapid was “held in a tunnel” in connection with Israelis killed in October 2023 in connection with the Al-Aqsa flood operation, as well as Israeli prisoners held by Palestinian resistance forces in the Gaza Strip. He held the Netanyahu government responsible for the people.
Lapid believed that “the Netanyahu government lost power after 7 a.m. on October 7, 2023, because the majority of Israelis no longer want it in power.”
Lapid stressed that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not getting stronger, saying, “The coalition barely won 50 seats,” and that “Israelis are not on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s side.”
Commenting on the government’s failure to comply with the demands of the protesting settlers to hold elections, Lapid stressed that “those in government are afraid of elections, and they are afraid of death.” I am afraid because I know the truth.”
