Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari, famed for his book Sapiens, stated on Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may "go down in history as the person who destroyed the state of Israel.”

Harari has openly opposed the Netanyahu government's judicial reforms and blamed the division of Israelis, which he claimed would be difficult to "heal", on the incumbent PM.

During an interview with the Associated Press (AP), Harari said “If Netanyahu had retired after two terms in office or after, say, eight years. I think even though I didn’t like many of the things he did, I think he would have retired as one of the great leaders of Israel," adding, “Now, his legacy is he is the certainly the divider of Israel, the person who divided the Israeli nation against itself."

Harari warned that the alarm would sound for "Israel's" Western supporters if the West Bank settlement plan is approved, consequently turning "Israel" into a "dictatorship".

“If this kind of power falls into the hands of an autocratic regime, which is also a fundamentalist religious regime with expansionist aims and with this belief in Jewish supremacy, it will set the whole Middle East on fire,” Harari said.

In this context, Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah had said, in a speech prior to the Israeli elections which resulted in the Netanyahu government, "The results of the latest Israeli election are of no concern to us because all Israeli parties are alike in their criminality."

However, he stressed that "the Israeli elections might have grave repercussions in Palestine, because idiots will take the wheel, and idiots do not scare us."

At the time, and prior to the ongoing public chaos in the occupation entity, Sayyed Nasrallah stated, "The Israeli elections will increase the divide and influence the future of this entity through the choices it is taking."

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