Israel’s Netanyahu says NY Times has been ‘demonizing Israel for decades’
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Incoming Israeli occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the New York Times of “burying the Holocaust for years” and “demonizing Israel for decades.”
On Saturday, the NYT editorial board published a piece entitled “The Ideal of Democracy in a Jewish State Is in Jeopardy”.
“The far-right government that will soon take power, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, marks a qualitative and alarming break with all the other governments in Israel’s 75-year history,” they wrote.
“While Mr Netanyahu clearly has the support of the Israeli electorate, his coalition’s victory was narrow and cannot be seen as a broad mandate to make concessions to ultrareligious and ultranationalist parties that are putting the ideal of a democratic Jewish state in jeopardy.
“Mr Netanyahu’s government… is a significant threat to the future of Israel – its direction, its security and even the idea of a Jewish homeland.”
In a response to the editorial, Netanyahu tweeted on Sunday by accusing the NYT of “shamefully” calling “for undermining Israel’s elected incoming government” and vowed to “ignore its ill-founded advice”.
After burying the Holocaust for years on its back pages and demonizing Israel for decades on its front pages, the New York Times now shamefully calls for undermining Israel’s elected incoming government. pic.twitter.com/CqqAoN7lSX
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) December 18, 2022
Netanyahu’s bloc sailed to victory in October elections thanks to an alliance with far-right religious Zionist parties. He is likely to become Israeli prime minister once again later this month.
