Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday gave a classic example of why politicians should stick to the script.
During an impassioned plea to halt violence against women, the prime minister got himself into a muddle and ended up saying that “women are animals… with rights.”
Netanyahu, normally a consummate orator, was speaking at a conference at the Knesset on stopping violence against women. Trouble appears to have started when the prime minister said, “Women don’t belong to you, women are not an animal you can hit.”
“So, if we are compassionate toward animals — women are animals. Children are animals. Animals with rights, and this matter needs to pass from the world and I hope we don’t see these shocking things,” he finally concluded.
Read more at Times of Israel.
{Matzav.com}
