Yair Lapid: B'Yachad will not sit in next gov't with Benjamin Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett was ironic

Opposition leader and former prime minister Yair Lapid clarified on Monday his B'Yachad co-party leader Naftali Bennett's comments about not ruling out sitting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the next government, should Netanyahu meet the conditions set by the new coalition, were an unsuccessful attempt at irony.Lapid criticized the mixed reactions within the political camp seeking to replace Netanyahu following Bennett's remarks."This is not a good time for irony. [Bennett] tried to say something ironic, and he clarified it," Lapid said. "We will not sit with [Netanyahu] under any circumstances. I have no patience for all the gloom. Sometimes you say something in a long conversation, and people take it out of context. We are not sitting with him.""These things happen during elections. Someone says a sentence, and people seize on it," he went on to say. "The camp immediately sank into gloom and lamentation.