“Anyone who has eyes in his head understands that the wave of media mudslinging against me and my wife, which is being conducted full strength three weeks before the elections, is an orchestrated campaign to topple the Likud government I head and exchange it for a left-wing government headed by [Zionist Camp co-chairs Tzipi Livni and Isaac Herzog]. The public is smarter than that and does not buy into it.”
This excerpt was taken from a short post by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the evening of Feb. 22, on his Facebook page, which is followed by about 1.17 million people.
