Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this evening (Sunday) attacked Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz and accused them of “falling asleep on guard” by not preventing the expected signing of the new nuclear agreement with Iran. Netanyahu warned of the emerging nuclear agreement and stated that it endangers Israel’s future.
Netanyahu: “In the last year, Lapid and Gantz completely abandoned the public fight against the nuclear agreement with Iran. For 12 years we fought with determination in this agreement and even got the US to withdraw from it.
But in their only year in power, Lapid and Gantz fell asleep on guard and allowed the US and Iran to reach a nuclear agreement that endangers our future. They simply did nothing to pressure the US administration not to sign this agreement. Unlike us – they did not go to Congress, did not go to the U.S. m, they did not conduct a vigorous information campaign in the world media.
After the US had already concluded the main points of the agreement with Iran, only then did Lapid and Gantz remember to wake up. Too late, too little. Lapid and Gantz’s incompetence will be remembered in history as the Iranian nuclear failure.
There is no better example of this handlessness, than the fact that Bennett, the Minister of Iranian Affairs, Shalapid Mina, is currently vacationing in Italy, on the eve of the signing of the agreement, and in an area without reception. That’s not how you fight existential danger. This is not how Israel is protected.
I pledge to you, citizens of Israel: after we win the elections, we will act in every way against this agreement. I will never let Iran get nuclear weapons.’