Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the left-wing Peace Now organization, which hung a huge sign on a building in central Tel Aviv with Israeli and PLO flags ahead of US President Joe Biden's visit to Israel on Wednesday.
Netanyahu said that "the hoisting of the Palestinian Authority flag in the heart of Tel Aviv is another expression of the loss of sovereignty and the violation of our national dignity under the Lapid government. Only the Likud can form a national government that will restore the flying of the Israeli flags."
The Peace Now sign features the Israeli flag next to a Palestine Liberation Organization flag, and reads: "President Biden, welcome to the two states we love most."
Matan Peleg, chairman of the Im Tirzu movement, responded: "Peace Now, you do not speak in the name of the people of Israel, but in the name of foreign subversion! They do not care about the people of Israel, they care about Jurgen, Frederick and Olaf from Europe. We are directing the public to the significance of the sign of the Peace Now plant organization and it is reported that most of its funding is from foreign entities."
"'Peace Now is another organization that makes a living from the conflict and exists thanks to the money of subversive foreign governments that want to undermine the existence of the State of Israel. That is why they have no shame in hanging the PLO flag, encouraging the government to hand over land, stirring up trouble in the area of eastern Jerusalem, and acting against the sane Zionist majority that does not want a terrorist state on [Trans-Israel] Highway 6. We call on the European Union and its member states to stop this foreign subversion and concentrate on the many problems that Europe suffers from," Peleg said.