Lapid slams Netanyahu for 'shameful press conference of a prime minister without a soul'

Source: The Times of Israel

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid dismisses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Monday evening press conference as “pointless political spin,” arguing that what he said about the Philadelphi Corridor “has no relation to reality.”

“Not one professional buys this spin. Not the security personnel, not the international system, not the fighters who are actually in Gaza and know the reality there. I don’t have a presentation with pictures, but there are facts,” he says. “Israel evacuated the Philadelphi Corridor 19 years ago, and Netanyahu voted in favor. Both in the government and in the Knesset. Netanyahu was prime minister for 15 years. It did not occur to him to recapture the Philadelphi Corridor.”

“The issue of the corridor is not Netanyahu’s concern, but, rather, the Ben Gvir-Smotrich Corridor,” Lapid continues, naming the far-right national security and finance ministers. “At least Netanyahu said one truth: that he does not want to end the war. He said it three times, that he doesn’t want to end the war, which means he doesn’t want to make a hostage deal, he wants war forever. His words tonight had one terrible meaning: he will not make a deal.”
“The war began on October 7. Until May 20, eight months, he did not bother to send the IDF to the Philadelphi Corridor,” Lapid argues. “All he described today was his own failure.”

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For some of us who don't know the details of Israeli security, this information on the history of the Philadelphi corridor may be helpful. I found it interesting. Obviously, the political divisions within Israel over the war are another, key part of the story.