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.”
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.
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
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Jokes aside, I think he would be perfectly happy to snap his fingers and disappear Hamas and Palestine right now… There are enough regional enemies to stoke the authoritarian fires forever… Hezbollah, Isis, Iran, etc…
But since they exist, he will use them to further personal goals, why not?
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.
The entire execution of the war is going to be conducted to make sure “yet to come” never comes.
If he says he’ll take his medicine after the war, that means he’s never going to end this war.
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