Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman today (Sunday) sharply criticized former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “I think it was important to finally form a government and not go to another election.”
During an interview with 103FM, Lieberman said that “I also think it was important for Benjamin Netanyahu to join the opposition – he functioned in his most cynical way and he took advantage of his position as prime minister.”
Lieberman continued to lash out at former Prime Minister Netanyahu, calling him “cynical.” In his remarks, he said that “precisely today, when he preaches morality to the heads of the Yesha Council for not giving him enough backing, it is simply a new record in his cynicism.”
“Netanyahu deceived all the leaders of the Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria. He promised to apply sovereignty to the entire Jewish settlement, to the Jordan Valley, to evacuate Khan al-Ahmar, and to torpedo everything,” Lieberman said.
“As someone who probably knows him best, I see how he is trying to split the opposition in government and I say I have no doubt that even at these moments he is in talks with the prosecution about a plea deal – and in the end, if offered a good enough deal, he will go for it without blinking and he He will abandon all members of the Likud. ”
Finance Minister Lieberman was quick to clarify his harsh remarks about a plea deal and said that “I have no information about it, but I also have no doubt about it – I know the man and know he likes to hold a lot of bullets in the air.”
The finance minister repeated his statements before the election that if the Likud replaced Netanyahu, Yisrael Beiteinu would be willing to sit with them in the government: “We said before the election that without Netanyahu we would join the Likud-led government.”
“There is no doubt that a Likud without Netanyahu will change the whole political situation. I do not know what will happen and when it will happen, so at the moment it is the best government that can be formed. We are doing everything to succeed and we want it to continue – what will happen after Netanyahu? “Absolutely, but maybe it is worth asking why we are all already outside the Likud. The answer is, only because of Netanyahu.”