Netanyahu: "Israel" Suffers from Lack of Leadership

Source: Al Manar TV, 14-04-2008
'Israeli' opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday harshly criticized the Olmert government's policy in all fields.
Speaking at a Likud event in Tel Aviv held ahead of Passover, the party chairman said that "security is flawed, the policy is detached from reality, the economy is in a state of retreat, and education is collapsing."
According to Netanyahu, the Olmert government is rushing into handing territories over to a non-existent Palestinian partner. "The Likud faction is the best faction in the Knesset," the opposition leader told his party members. "I promise you that it will be the biggest faction in the Knesset in the next elections."
"On the eve of the feast of freedom, we first of all hope for the return of our captives - Shalit, Regev and Goldwasser. On the eve of Passover, we tell 'Israel's' citizens that the State of 'Israel' can succeed," he said.
Netanyahu went on to say that the current situation in 'Israel' was "the result of the leadership's weakness, or to be precise, the lack of leadership and the lack of way.
"We have a government which escapes responsibility, and sometimes it seems that it is only cynically engaged in political survival. I believe that the State can be led differently, in a successful way. But this way compels us to look straight into reality and tell the people the truth."
The Likud chairman once again called on Shas ministers to leave the government. "For how long will you stay in this government? Until we return to the '67 lines? Until the flag of Palestine is waved on the Temple Mount? I ask you to get out of this government, get out of there."
Addressing political mistakes made over the past few years, the opposition chairman said, "(War Minister and former Prime Minister Ehud) Barak withdrew from Lebanon, strengthening Hizbullah. (Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert made a mistake with the disengagement, strengthening Hamas."
"These two mistakes by Barak and Olmert have set up two radical Islam bases controlled by Iran. Some 8,000 missiles and rockets have been showered on the top of 'Israelis'' heads from these two bases. In the north and in the south, our enemies are arming themselves with lethal Iranian weapons," Netanyahu said.