As many as 80% of Israelis believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must take responsibility for the security failures exposed by the devastating Oct. 7 assault on Israeli by Hamas, a poll in the Ma'ariv newspaper showed on Friday.
The evidence quite clearly indicates that it was not - that it was instead a very deliberate choice made in pursuit of long-term goals
Netanyahu explicitly rejects a two-state solution. His goal is to annex all existing Palestinian territory.
The Palestinian people are justifiably unwilling to submit to that, because they know that that way leads to them being made second-class citizens of an apartheid state.
The only alternative then is for Israel to conquer those territories - to kill enough Palestinians to terrorize the rest into subjugation. And that is, certainly not coincidentally, the exact strategy they’re pursuing at this moment.
And the Hamas attack is the specific thing that made it possible for them to do so with at least some colorable semblance of justification.
Therefore, the only reasonable conclusion is that when the Israeli government learned of the planned attack, a deliberate choice was made to not move to prevent it - to allow it to happen, because it would serve Netanyahu’s purposes when it did. As it has.
It’s wild how many people buy into that conspiracy theory – or that someone could call something so bonkers the “only reasonable conclusion.” Security is Netanyahu’s central promise to Israelis. There is nothing that could be more damaging to him than appearing weak or incompetent on security. It’s the most tortured logic that would have you conclude that having the worst attack in the history of the country occur on his watch could somehow be good for him. His political career is over, his legacy is in tatters, and he’ll no longer be able to out-manoeuver his legal problems.
Not to mention that he’d be executed for treason if he was complicit in the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust.
Being disgraced, discredited, or dead doesn’t help Netanyahu meet his goals.
This is absurd conspiracy-nut level of thinking. Among other reasons because this will likely end Netanyahu’s career after the war ends, he’s no longer immediately needed and investigations start (Israelis have a history of actually doing those properly because most see it as an existential threat to not have functioning defense mechanisms), and I’m pretty sure that he knows this. Which means that the reason for him to do this anyway would be because he’s so selfless that he doesn’t care about his career or power (even though after losing his career he’s likely to face lawsuits for other things he’s done) as long as this goal is completed. I hope you see how nonsensical it is for a super-populist politician under the threat of several investigations to selflessly give up his career and power.
“Failing” implies that it was unintentional.
The evidence quite clearly indicates that it was not - that it was instead a very deliberate choice made in pursuit of long-term goals
Netanyahu explicitly rejects a two-state solution. His goal is to annex all existing Palestinian territory.
The Palestinian people are justifiably unwilling to submit to that, because they know that that way leads to them being made second-class citizens of an apartheid state.
The only alternative then is for Israel to conquer those territories - to kill enough Palestinians to terrorize the rest into subjugation. And that is, certainly not coincidentally, the exact strategy they’re pursuing at this moment.
And the Hamas attack is the specific thing that made it possible for them to do so with at least some colorable semblance of justification.
Therefore, the only reasonable conclusion is that when the Israeli government learned of the planned attack, a deliberate choice was made to not move to prevent it - to allow it to happen, because it would serve Netanyahu’s purposes when it did. As it has.
It’s wild how many people buy into that conspiracy theory – or that someone could call something so bonkers the “only reasonable conclusion.” Security is Netanyahu’s central promise to Israelis. There is nothing that could be more damaging to him than appearing weak or incompetent on security. It’s the most tortured logic that would have you conclude that having the worst attack in the history of the country occur on his watch could somehow be good for him. His political career is over, his legacy is in tatters, and he’ll no longer be able to out-manoeuver his legal problems.
Not to mention that he’d be executed for treason if he was complicit in the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust.
Being disgraced, discredited, or dead doesn’t help Netanyahu meet his goals.
This is absurd conspiracy-nut level of thinking. Among other reasons because this will likely end Netanyahu’s career after the war ends, he’s no longer immediately needed and investigations start (Israelis have a history of actually doing those properly because most see it as an existential threat to not have functioning defense mechanisms), and I’m pretty sure that he knows this. Which means that the reason for him to do this anyway would be because he’s so selfless that he doesn’t care about his career or power (even though after losing his career he’s likely to face lawsuits for other things he’s done) as long as this goal is completed. I hope you see how nonsensical it is for a super-populist politician under the threat of several investigations to selflessly give up his career and power.