Israeli Opposition Accuses Netanyahu Of Being Too Pro-Palestine

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Israeli Opposition Accuses Netanyahu Of Being Too Pro-Palestine

Benjamin Netanyahu’s loudest right-wing rival is now branding the prime minister as a proponent of Palestinian statehood.

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman said “the only one who declared his willingness to establish a Palestinian state is Benjamin Netanyahu,” pointing to the Likud leader’s 2009 speech at Bar-Ilan University, according to the Times of Israel.

The jab answered a rebuke of Liberman’s own idea. He had urged Israel to let Jordan run Areas A and B of the West Bank, floating the plan on the B’Sheva podcast and calling the Palestinian Authority bankrupt, according to the Times of Israel. (RELATED: Israel Rejects Trump’s Hamas Peace Plan)

Netanyahu responded by painting his former aide as a leftist. “Liberman, I knew that you were on the left ever since you established a government with Mansour Abbas,” the prime minister wrote on X.

Liberman pushed back with a video assembled from Netanyahu’s past comments on statehood. “This isn’t AI. This is Netanyahu saying: ‘We must have a Palestinian state in the West Bank!’” he wrote on X.

Senior coalition figures slammed Lieberman’s proposal. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich warned that the plan would forfeit Israeli security control, saying “Liberman wants to return Israel to the days of the Jordanian Legion. We must not let that happen,” according to the Times of Israel. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir called Liberman dangerous for Israel, and Aryeh Deri, head of the ultra-orthodox Shas party, said Liberman had “forgotten what it means to be right-wing,” the outlet reported.

Lieberman’s party is projected to take roughly 10 seats as the campaign enters its final stretch, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Israelis head to the polls on Oct. 27.