Opposition Leader Yitzhak Herzog criticized the timing of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's visit to Africa on Monday. Speaking to a meeting of the Zionist Union's Knesset faction, Herzog acknowledged the 40th annivesary of Israel's rescue of hijacked airline passengers in Entebbe, Uganda, and saluted Labor party leaders for their leadership at the time.
He then recalled a popular song that said, "Despair is more comfortable in London," and said Netanyahu went to Africa "and left an entire state without answers and solutions to the wave of terror, without solutions to the plight of the settlers, without solutions to the cries of pain of the families of the missing." Herzog continued, "Netanyahu is not travelling, he is fleeing from a military solution and from a diplomatic solution. He's fleeing from (Minister Naftali) Bennett and (Minister Avigdor) Liberman and is fleeing from European pressure." He concluded, "There's no doubt, desperation in Africa is much more comfortable."