Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is backing Iran into a corner and making it feel like it has no choice but to launch a preemptive strike against Israel, Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid wrote Monday in a blog post.
"[Prime Minster] Binyamin Netanyahu is wrong," he wrote. "He is wrong and he has failed. He is wrong in that a responsible prime minister can not stand on the stage of the UN and announce that there will be a war come springtime."
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He added that Netanyahu's rhetoric is discouraging economic growth. "Is there a single Israeli company - as patriotic as any - that will open up a new factory these days in areas within the rocket ranges of Katyushas in the north or Kassams in the south?"
