Posters appeared in Jerusalem depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an Arab headdress and calling him “The Liar.” The posters, accusing the premier of being on the verge of transferring West Bank lands to the Palestinians, were reminiscent of a hate campaign conducted against Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin prior to his assassination in 1995. Netanyahu’s Likud Party issued a statement that the posters were being distributed by “crazy extremists.” Meanwhile, Netanyahu told reporters after a weekly Cabinet meeting that Israel “was working on an agreement” to break the stalemated Israeli- Palestinian negotiations, but added, “We are not there yet.”
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