Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has disassociated himself from his son Yair's recent remarks against late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on social media.
"I do not agree with the things my son Yair wrote about Yitzhak Rabin. Yair's positions are his alone," the prime minister said.
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Netanyahu's response came following his son's tweet that: "Rabin broke the law (the dollar account affair), gave speeches in America while he was still a public official, made a fortune. When they caught on to him, he put the blame on his wife and ended it with a pleasant living room conversation with [then-Attorney General] Aharon Barak. Rabin murdered Holocaust survivors on the Altalena. Rabin brought [Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser] Arafat and tens of thousands more terrorists from Tunisia and caused the death of 2,000 Israelis."
Rabin's son, Yuval, responded to the tweet on social media, saying, "Determining Rabin murdered Holocaust survivors is the direct continuation of a poster of Rabin in SS uniform. Don't say you didn't see it [.] Maybe this time the attorney general will act against the inciters?"
Labor chairman Amir Peretz, meanwhile, directed the party's legal advisers to prepare a libel suit against Yair Netanyahu.
"As the individual tasked with Rabin's legacy and continuing it, I will not allow the slander of Israeli hero in wartime and in peace and his path."
"I will fight for his path," he said, "and I will not let sick people's sick ideas rewrite history and damage my name and the name of the party."
Yair Netanyahu has since deleted the tweet.
