Smotrich Schools Lapid after the attack in the PA Arab village of Al Funduq near Kedumim

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) tweeted less than an hour after the attack that killed three Israelis and wounded eight: 

“You are the government. You are responsible. The conceptzia is yours. It was yours on October 7. It has been yours for the past 20 years. You are the ones leading Israel from disaster to disaster. And then you whine as if you had nothing to do with it.”

Smotrich responded: 

“You are right, Yair. We are the government and the responsibility is ours. A responsibility to fix what you and your friends on the left have done in the decades in which you promoted surrender and retreats and Oslo and escape from terror. We are fixing the escape from Gaza and the expulsion from Gush Katif, fixing the escape from Lebanon, and with God’s help we will also fix the damage of the Oslo disaster.”

He continued:

“It’s not easy to remove a stone that a bunch of irresponsible blind people threw into a well. It’s complex and takes time and requires determination and perseverance. But believe me, we’re on our way there with determination and without giving up.

“We dismantled Gaza and Lebanon like no one else has done, and we will continue until Hamas is completely destroyed. We dismantled most of Hezbollah’s capabilities, and we are continuing there as well, and we will do it in Judea and Samaria too. We will abolish Oslo, dismantle the PA, take back responsibility, and eradicate terrorism. I have been doing this for the past two years in the civilian sphere, which is my responsibility in the Ministry of Defense (where he is an adjunct minister in charge of the IDF civil government), and I am determined to lead this in the military and political aspects in the government and the cabinet.

“It is difficult and complex and challenging, both politically and security-wise, but this term of ours will go down in Israeli history as a dramatic turning point in the perception of security and, therefore, in Israel’s security reality in all sectors, and by the end of it, Judea and Samaria will also look completely different, God willing. You can take this as a commitment.”

 “Funnduq, Shechem, and Jenin need to look like Jabaliya so that Kfar Saba does not become a Kfar Aaza, God forbid.”