ANKARA, December 6. /TASS/: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is balancing on the verge of collapse, something that he may indicate any time soon, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
"Israeli Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu is on the brink of collapse or bankruptcy right now. And he may make such an announcement at any moment," the state-run Anadolu agency quoted the Turkish president as saying upon returning from Qatar. "And then there is the West which connives with the wrongdoings of both Netanyahu and his administration. Fortunately, the West has largely reconsidered its view of Israel since October 7," Erdogan told Turkish journalists.
Erdogan described the ruling coalition in Israel as unhealthy. "This coalition is breaking apart. Don’t think that they are strong, they will quit [politics]. We already said 50 to 60 days ago that Netanyahu is going away," the Turkish leader said. "Now, certain people emerge who are telling Israel: ‘We are tired of feeding you’," he maintained. "Look at France that in the early days was making statements of support [for Israel]. Now French President [Emmanuel] Macron is making completely different statements," the Turkish president said.
"Many other Western countries, too, are no longer making the statements of the kind they were making in the first days [of the conflict]," Erdogan noted as he urged patience before the world revisits its attitude toward Israel’s actions.
