Benjamin Netanyahu has evoked the spirit of London during the blitz, and pointed to his own family’s sacrifice amid the blood, toil, tears and sweat of his nation: the second postponement of his son’s wedding.
The Israeli prime minister’s remarks, solemnly delivered to the cameras against the backdrop of a missile-struck hospital building in the southern city of Beersheba, set off a howl of derision that echoed around the Hebrew-language internet, at the height of a war that Netanyahu unleashed on Friday.
The stunning comments also added grist to the arguments of his critics that the PM is increasingly cut off emotionally from the daily realities of Israel and the region, after more than 17 years in office.
Seeking to underline his family’s shared hardship with ordinary Israelis, Netanyahu adopted a Churchillian tone when pointing out that this was not the first time his son Avner’s wedding had needed to be postponed, and that Avner’s fiancee was also disappointed, not to mention the thwarted mother of the groom, Netanyahu’s wife, Sara.
“It really reminds me of the British people during the blitz. We are going through a blitz,” Netanyahu said, referring to the wartime Nazi bombing of Britain in which 43,000 civilians died.
Spoken like a true sociopath.
Unfathomably tone deaf, the people he’s bombing are unable to attend their children’s weddings, because the bombs are killing those children.
Also the headline is ridiculous, scraping the bottom of the barrel for anything positive, there’s nothing remotely stunning here.
I think they were saying it was stunningly stupid and tone deaf. No one is actually stunned, it’s more that it’s unbelievable to everyone that he actually said it. It was a bit tongue in cheek.
Oh noes! Maybe uhhh don’t pull this type of bullshit?
Bloodthirsty butcher. He is up there with Hitler. Stalin and Pol Pot as one of the tyrants of modern history.
I could end the conflict right now and go to my son’s wedding BUT probably lose the next election and go to prison… OR I could keep it going, make the entire planet a worse place but stay out of prison, keep leading the party and not go to the wedding…
To me, the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank reminds me of the Nazi occupation of the USSR and Yugoslavia, mass murders and everyday war crimes. The IDF are on the same level as the Nazi SS brigades, war criminals and child murderers.
Comparing this to the Blitz… Fucking yikes, no wonder the guardian broke free of their leash to underline how tone deaf this is.
He had to cancel his son’s wedding? Wow, he must be suffering almost as much as everyone living in Gaza. Too bad this is just a thing that happens, it’s not like there’s a single person who can just stop the whole thing…
No, really, it is like the blitz. It’s just Israel is playing the German side.
