With all the pressure people have been putting on Netanyahu over his comments on election day, suggesting over and over they were racist, I guess this was bound to happen eventually:
JPOST – In a meeting with representatives of minority communities in Israel on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized for the remarks that he made on Election Day about Arab Israeli voters.
“I know that the things I said a few days ago hurt some citizens in Israel, the Arab Israeli citizens,” Netanyahu said.
“This was not my intention and I am sorry,” he said.
In the controversial statement on Election Day, Netanyahu said “funding from foreign governments to get more Israeli Arabs to vote worked, which means all Right-wing voters must make sure to go to the polls.”
Netanyahu told the gathered community leaders on Monday that he saw himself as the prime minister of every one of them, “without any difference in religion, race, or sex.”
“I see in every Israeli citizen a partner in the building of a flourishing and safe state of Israel for all,” Netanyahu remarked.