{"id":251793,"date":"2026-08-16T20:28:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/251793\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T20:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:28:40","slug":"netanyahus-likud-puts-zohran-mamdani-alongside-recep-tayyip-erdogan-khamenei-as-israels-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/251793\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu&#8217;s Likud puts Zohran Mamdani alongside Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Khamenei as Israel&#8217;s enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Likud launched a billboard ahead of election season featuring New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani alongside Iran&#8217;s Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem, writing that the four &#8220;want Netanyahu to lose&#8221; the October election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The billboard further calls to &#8220;not let them win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Netanyahu also reposted a picture of the billboard and captioned the post: \u201cDon\u2019t let them win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The billboard, which social media posts claim stands in Jerusalem, features superimposed images of the four men with the caption: \u201cThey want Netanyahu to lose, don\u2019t let them win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/likud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Likud<\/a> billboard stands in Tel Aviv overlooking the Ayalon Highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In response, several Israeli politicians and political parties posted their own versions of the billboard.<\/p>\n<p>Yashar, the party led by former IDF chief of staff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/gadi-eisenkot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gadi Eisenkot<\/a>, responded with a version that read: \u201cThey want the IDF to collapse, don\u2019t let Netanyahu win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cNetanyahu, we fixed for you,\u201d the X\/Twitter caption read. \u201cOnly Eisenkot will establish a fully Zionist government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In a different post, MK Naama Lazimi posted the same billboard, but with pictures of Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Netanyahu\u2019s former strategic adviser Yonatan Urich, Netanyahu\u2019s former security spokesperson Eli Feldstein, and former Netanyahu political adviser Srulik Einhorn, all of whom are believed to be involved in the Qatargate affair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/qatargate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Qatargate<\/a> is based on an investigation into Netanyahu&#8217;s aides, which alleges that they were involved in a scandal in which they were paid by Qatar while managing hostage negotiations with Hamas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In her post, Lazimi changed the billboard to read: \u201cThey want Netanyahu to win, don\u2019t let them lose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNetanyahu, I updated this to the Qatargate version,\u201d she wrote in her caption. \u201cThe invoice will be submitted on October 7.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To date in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-election-2026\/article-905120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">polls<\/a>, Eisenkot\u2019s Yashar is leading with 24 Knesset seats, Netanyahu\u2019s Likud has 22, and Naftali Bennett\u2019s B&#8217;Yachad has 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Likud launched a billboard ahead of election season featuring New York City Mayor Zohran 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