Blue and White Leader Benny Gantz responded to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had earlier accused him of being insane. Gantz said Netanyahu’s campaign rhetoric is divisive and incites tensions, adding that it has reached dangerous levels and “could spark a civil war.” The charge came a day after Gantz accused Netanyahu of being involved in the incitement to violence that led to the 1995 assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Gantz argued Netanyahu would like him dead, and Likud now seeks to paint Gantz as “insane, a cuckoo, mentally unstable.” “He used to be different, but 13 years [in power] have done this to him. He has lost something he once had, and instead of cultivating civil unity, he could cause a civil war, and we must be wary of it,” Gantz said, in response to Likud Party’s accusations. “When you are in office too long, you lose the statesmanship, you lose the desire and the longing to serve other people and enact change, and you begin to deal only with your political survival,” Gantz said, promising that he will enact a law to limit the premiership to two terms or no more than eight years. The political scene revealed a Likud campaign on Twitter against Gantz, in which 135,000 fake accounts were created to promote Likud’s propaganda against him. Netanyahu had to convene a special press conference to respond to this accusation. He claimed that these were not fake accounts planted by Likud but were real accounts of independent people. He brought with him Giora Ezra, 63, to the press briefing Monday in a bid to dismiss accusations his Likud party has deployed an army of internet bots to help get him reelected. Ezra posts online as “Captain George” and tweets his Liked-supporting opinion. Gantz started another campaign in which he accused Netanyahu of using political lies such as world dictators. “Netanyahu is pushing the election debate to dangerous levels that threaten democracy, and he is imitating Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his threat to Israeli democracy," Gantz said.