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.”
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.
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.
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.
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