Liberman: Netanyahu employs ‘exact methods’ of Nazi propagandist Goebbels

Yisrael Beytenu leader likens Likud leader’s methods to Stalin’s too; Lapid, Gantz disavow ‘unacceptable comparison’; Likud party implies Liberman has mafia ties

By Carrie Keller-Lynn
11 September 2022,

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman, the head of the Yisrael Beytenu party, on Sunday accused political rival and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu of employing the “exact methods” of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi party’s chief propogandist, as well as Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

The comparison sparked political outrage, and he later said he had not intended to harm anyone.

Liberman had in recent days accused Likud leader Netanyahu of being behind the claims made by Yossi Kamisa, a former Liberman associate, that the Yisrael Beytenu head tried to hire him to kill a police superintendent two decades ago, accusations that Liberman denies.

“It’s a blood libel,” Liberman said while entering the government’s cabinet meeting on Sunday.

“These are Netanyahu’s methods, exactly like those of Goebbels and Stalin, to make the most severe, absurd accusation and repeat it a million times until people get used to the absurdity,” Liberman said.

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