Netanyahu: My office is under a wild and unrestrained attack, a hunting expedition

November 10, 2024   

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharply attacked the reports against his office on Sunday evening in light of the scandals involving employees in his office - saying that this is an "organized hunting expedition". Against the background of the matter - the Prime Minister's Office spokesman for military affairs, Eli Feldstein, has been in custody for several weeks on suspicion of leaking military documents to the media abroad, and it is alleged that Tzhai Braverman, the chief of staff, was involved in "blackmailing" a senior IDF officer. Netanyahu began: "In recent days, my office has been subjected to a wild and unbridled attack." He added: "While the government and the cabinet under my leadership are working constantly to repel our enemies who seek our destruction, working constantly to bring about the defeat of our enemies, while I am leading the war and repelling international attacks from various arenas, we are now dealing more vigorously with another front - the media's fake news." "This is no secret to you," he continued. "Since the beginning of the war, a flood of serious and criminal leaks has flooded the State of Israel. These serious and criminal leaks are sometimes accompanied by baseless lies and slander. "A flood of leaks from the political-security cabinet, and from the war cabinet at the time, and a continuous tsunami of leaks from the negotiating team. These leaks provide vital information to Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, information that endangers the state, endangers our fighters, and also endangers the return of our hostages." Netanyahu explained: "You understand - Hamas receives information from the discussion room of Israel's negotiating team! Hezbollah and Iran receive, sometimes live, transcripts of the discussions within us about the methods of action against them and the arguments between us." He criticized: "There have been zero investigations regarding all of this. Zero. And this happened despite my repeated requests to open investigations. They don't even check, why? Because the goal is not to protect the security of the state. The goal is to promote an agenda of weakness and concessions, in the midst of the war. "Suddenly, in recent days, in a timely and orchestrated manner, they are trying to terrorize me and my people, in the midst of a war that I am leading - and they are creating scandals out of thin air. Every evening a new scandal, explosive headlines, celebrations in the studios. They are inflating the first scandal, inflating the second scandal, inflating the third, fourth and soon the fifth. Poisoning and panic in the midst of a war. "We know exactly what is happening here - this is an organized hunting expedition designed to harm the country's leadership and weaken us in the midst of a war." "But it no longer works on anyone," the Prime Minister continued. "The people of Israel know the truth. You, the citizens of Israel, you know the truth. You understand very well what they are trying to do here. "Therefore, I say in the clearest terms: This will not deter me. I trust my people who work day and night for the country. I am more determined than ever to make the right decisions for the benefit of Israel's security, and I am more determined than ever to lead us to complete victory. Together we will fight, and with God's help - together we will win.".