Regardless of how anybody feels about Netanyahu, this is objectively just a very stupid statement.
We don’t value life “proportionately”. 1,200 people k*lled is the same no matter where they are.
Saying that “because we’re a smaller country, our worst tragedy is like your worst tragedy times SIXTEEN” is beyond ignorant and manipulative.
For a country that desperately needs good PR- this ain’t it.
Benjamin Netanyahu says October 7th was the equivalent of "sixteen 9/11s."
"Proportionately," the death of 1,200 Israelis is "equal to" the death of 40,000 Americans, he says.