Netanyahu Rips ICC Prosecutor for ‘Pouring Gasoline on the Fires of Anti-Semitism’: ‘He’s Doing a Hit Job’

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NETANYAHU: "Well, I think this is absurd. This is beyond outrageous. He said we deny water? He is making a totally false accusation here and everywhere else. We are supplying now nearly half of the water of Gaza. We supplied only 7% before the war. So this is completely opposite of what he’s saying. He’s saying that we’re starving people? You know, we have supplied half a million tons of food and medicine with 20,000 trucks. This guy is out to demonize Israel. He’s doing a hit job. He’s creating a false symmetry between the democratically elected leaders of Israel and the terrorist chieftains. That’s like saying after 9/11, 'Well, I’m issuing arrest warrants for George Bush, but also for bin Laden,' or after World War II, 'Well, I'm issuing the arrest warrants for FDR but also for Hitler.' It is a hit job. It is not serious. He is out to defame Israel and he's also pouring gasoline on the fires of anti-Semitism that are spreading around the world because he is attacking the one and only Jewish state and trying to handcuff us, preventing us from exercising, responsibly, through the laws of war, as we obey them and we are subordinate to them, he is saying we are not. He is creating false symmetry, false attacks, and he's doing grave injustice to the International Court."