Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid, speaking on Sunday amid the furor triggered by a call by an anti-government protest leader to assassinate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, vowed to continue fighting against the government until it is defeated.
“The new spin of the poison machine: Bibi [Netanyahu], [Finance Minister Bezalel] Smotrich and [National Security Minister Itamar] Ben-Gvir think they can preach morality to us. This weak, racist and terror-supporting trio—it’s time to understand we don’t work for you, you won’t silence us and we won’t take your lessons in democracy,” wrote Lapid in a post to Twitter.
“You are leading us to an end Israel as we know it. We’ll fight you and win,” he added.
הספין החדש של מכונת הרעל, ביבי סמוטריץ ובן גביר חושבים שהם יכולים להטיף לנו מוסר. שלישיית החלש, הגזען ותומך הטרור הגיע הזמן שתבינו- אנחנו לא עובדים אצלכם, לא תשתיקו אותנו ולא נקבל מכם שיעורים בדמוקרטיה. אתם מובילים את ישראל לסוף המדינה כמו שהכרנו אותה, אנחנו נאבק בכם ואנחנו ננצח.
— יאיר לפיד – Yair Lapid (@yairlapid) February 5, 2023
“It seemed that all boundaries had been crossed by threats against elected officials and myself, but this is not the case, because we have now heard and seen an explicit threat to murder the prime minister of Israel,” said Netanyahu in a statement.
The remarks came after former Israel Air Force pilot Ze’ev Raz wrote on Facebook on Friday: “If a prime minister rises and assumes dictatorial powers, he is a dead man, it’s that simple…. There’s an obligation to kill him.”
Raz was questioned by police on Sunday.
Demonstrators converged on central Tel Aviv on Saturday night for the fifth consecutive week, ostensibly in opposition to the government’s judicial reform plan.
The proposal includes changing the way judges are selected so that the Knesset members will have majority say on the Judicial Selection Committee; passing an “override clause,” a law that would give legislators the power to reverse, or “override,” the Supreme Court when it strikes down laws; abolishing the legal justification of “reasonableness” by which the court can cancel Knesset decisions; and empowering ministers to hire and fire their own legal advisers.
Netanyahu has rejected as “baseless” claims by critics that the reforms would mark the end of the country’s democracy, and vowed to implement them “responsibly.” JNS
Why did the Israelis allow this wicked anti Torah man to sit in for Bibi for a few months WITHOUT being elected. Now he feels that he has some power to continue his evil.
So according to Lapid it is anti-democratic
If:
#1.) A block of parties campaign on a platform to legislate judicial reform.
#2.) Those parties win the election because, in part, they campaigned to legislate the aforementioned judicial reform.
#3.) The proposed judicial reform is to take away power from an unelected and unaccountable judiciary and give that power the the democratically elected judiciary which is accountable to the voters.
#4.) The new fairly elected government intends to follow through on their campaign promise and proceed with the judicial reform despite that the unelected judges and the leftists who lost the election are demonstrating and screaming that the sky is falling.
Nothing that Lapid said makes any sense.
If the media in Israel had an ounce of integrity, they would mock Lapid and his 10,000 leftist demonstrators and call them out for what they are, a bunch anti-democratic activists who want to intimidate the duly elected government of Israel.
What Lapid and his cohorts are doing is nothing short of sedition.
This MAMZER should have been elliminated long ago…..
Lapid is a clear rasha ben rasha.