Netanyahu: Bennett pathetic, dangerous

• Published date: 11 October 2021
• Author: GIL HOFFMAN
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Netanyahu compared Bennett to a child pretending to fly a plane, accusing him of pretending to run the country.

"He has the title but he is not a real prime minister," Netanyahu said. "It's not only pathetic, it's dangerous. He has no achievements and no ideology. He is not a leader. Everything is fake."

Concluding the pilot analogy, Netanyahu said "there is hope, because the Likud plane is on the runway, ready to return to power."

Netanyahu accused the government of wasting money on trips abroad by its cabinet ministers. He joked that so many ministers are abroad, there is a shortage of security guards in Israel and that Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is "on an official visit to Israel."

But Bennett said it was necessary to heal Israel's public diplomacy, which he said was harmed while Netanyahu was prime minister, including during this summer's IDF operation against Hamas. He said he was proud that his government had appointed...