A growing list of Israeli officials have accepted responsibility for failing to prevent Hamas’ brutal attack on Israeli communities during the Oct. 7 incursion that triggered the current Israel-Hamas war. Conspicuously absent from that roll call is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Following the horrific assault, which saw the deadliest day for Israelis since the country was established 75 years ago, Netanyahu has repeatedly sidestepped accountability. He has instead blamed others, in what critics say shows a leader thinking more about his own political survival than soothing and steering a traumatized nation.
“Netanyahu is fighting a personal battle of survival and that takes precedence over fighting Israel’s war against Hamas,” said Netanyahu biographer and journalist Anshel Pfeffer. “As part of that battle, he’s prepared to malign those who are now commanding Israel’s army and intelligence services.”
Netanyahu has sidestepped accountability
His entire life in four words.
Of course he’s going to sidestep responsibility for staffing the border with a skeleton crew on the 50th anniversary of the last time Palestinians attacked on the Yom Kippur holiday.
I’m not at all convinced he didn’t want a little attack to rally people behind him, and it got away from him.
The right-wing leader of the right-wing party that has control over the supposed best intelligence agency in the world, which somehow failed to prevent an attack that Hamas broadcasted on social media, is side-stepping responsibility. Shocking.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it came out that their party knew the attack was coming, and let it happen to galvanize the public behind them.
He has actually funded Hamas. If what you say is true, all this chaos and hatred looks very deliberate.
After listening to 30 mins of his interview with Lex Fridman this is the only thing I would expect him to do.
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This is typical for so called “right wing conservatives”, they act like commies did, always blame other, and naming public enemies… they never responsible for anything, except the good things.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“During war, leadership must act responsibly,” Benny Gantz, a former military chief of staff, posted on X, formerly Twitter, calling on Netanyahu to take back his words.
Shafran Gittleman pointed to his apparent refusal this year to accept their warnings that a planned overhaul of the country’s judiciary threatened state security.
Scores of senior reservists and fighter pilots, key pillars of the military, had threatened to stop serving if the overhaul continued, though they have rushed back to duty since Oct. 7.
Netanyahu’s allies and the core of his nationalist base say the Israeli leader is facing unfair and poorly timed criticism by the same figures in the media and in the public who have long opposed him.
It has shattered his carefully manicured image as a strong leader with burnished security credentials who has worked tirelessly to protect Israel from its myriad threats.
Noam Tibon, a former military general who was outspoken against the judicial overhaul and rescued his son and his family from the Hamas attack, said the country needed unity to win the war but that Netanyahu was sowing division.
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Hes playing with fire here, responsibility for the deaths of 2000 people.
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Claims like these hold little water when it’s not him who decides or those “officials” if he stays in power. Every single person I know from Israel wants him imprisoned and considers him responsible. But time for that is yet to come, right now war is going on and bigger issues need dealing with.
Could the bigger issue be that him and his party are inflaming the conflict in order to hold on to power and avoid prison?
Likud and Hamas need each other to exist. The party doesn’t have a future if there’s peace, and now more than ever they benefit from more conflict. That’s part of why they were ineffective during the initial attacks by Hamas, the other being they moved troops to the West Bank to support settler initiatives there.
But time for that is yet to come, right now war is going on and bigger issues need dealing with.
This is the bit I have a problem with because that’s the exact rhetoric he’s using right now. He’s said it himself, he’ll face responsibility but only after the war. He’s also said the war will be long.
It’s pretty easy to see what he’s doing here
Every single person I know from Israel wants him imprisoned
and somehow he ruled the country for ~20 years, and he’s going to be reelected too, you’ll see. I’m from Italy and we got Berlusconi, so I think I know what I’m talking about.
I’ll believe it when I see it. He left the border unguarded to protect illegal settlers instead yet nothing is happening to him.
In order for it to be a war both sides need to have an army. This is a genocide.
