Benjamin Netanyahu has done it again. After the gaffe a week ago, when he sparked a scandal by writing on Twitter that responsibility for the October 7 Hamas massacre lay exclusively with the secret services, the Israeli prime minister is once again in favor of rebuilding the country under heavy attacks which his country has suffered for decades and who place at least part of the blame on his internal opponents. As Haaretz reports, in some statements made today, Netanyahu actually suggested that Hamas had recognized the signs of weakness in Israel due to the massive appeals spread among reservists in recent months not to respond to controversial calls against the sweeping judicial reform by the ultra-right Government. In short, as the specter of a future commission of inquiry into who and what enabled Hamas to strike with such violence in the south of the country undisturbed looms, Netanyahu has indicated that the investigation must also focus on the impact of the reserve policy. Refusing to serve in the IDF in the weeks and months leading up to October 7th. Seditious phrases when uttered at a time when thousands of reservists are on the front lines fighting one of the most delicate wars Israel has ever had to wage: on the front lines, considering that in addition to the one in Gaza There is another The intensity on the northern border with Lebanon is currently low but worrying. It is no coincidence that Benny Gantz, the former chief of staff whom Netanyahu quickly recalled to the emergency war cabinet, soon moved against the prime minister over his new public gambling, despite the rivalry and political distance with which they had grappled with others in the last few months, also and especially about this reform. “The reservists are committed and the extraordinary mobilization of the entire Israeli society is the overwhelming response to all our enemies.” Evading responsibility and slandering in time of war is an insult to the state. “The Prime Minister must take back his words clearly and unequivocally,” Gantz attacked. The attitude of the group “Brothers and Sisters in Arms”, an association of reservists who played a crucial role in supporting the democracy protests of the last few months and after, was also very positive October 7th played hard in supporting the affected communities in the south. who spoke of a “pride in the back in the middle of war” by the Prime Minister. Like last week, Netanyahu could only admit within a few hours that he had done big things, too big things. And so in the evening came a short tweet with the aim of putting the pieces back together and ending the controversy: “Hamas started a war against us because they want to kill us all, and not because of a conflict between us.” Hamas is wrong and is therefore eliminated. Only together will we win.” These words were shared and reprinted by Gantz: “All together, the entire Israeli society, we will win.” But Netanyahu’s nervousness and the fractures within the improvised war cabinet are once again becoming clear.
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