![]() “At the end of the day it’s a Nazi regime looking to destroy us all. The miscalculation, he said, was that Hamas was after economic concessions, and a softening of Israel’s blockade on Gaza. But this invasion by Hamas, he said, would have been planned 12 to 18 months ago – when Netanyahu was in opposition. This time, he’s been forced into a war he didn’t choose when he may have been distracted by other things.įocusing on the judicial overhaul “didn’t help”, said Channel 12’s Segal. It’s also worth remembering that Bibi has been written off countless times before – only for him to return, Terminator-like, to trounce his opponents. “The last thing Israelis care about right now is Netanyahu’s political career,” said Plesner, who also serves in the reserves of the Israeli special forces, where he is a major. It may come as scant consolation to him that Hamas has managed to reunite Israel. But after 10 months of facing down protests against his controversial and divisive judicial overhaul, his corruption case – and a near-death experience – this is battered and beaten Bibi, not the vintage version. This would have been a tall order in Netanyahu’s prime. Even as Israel pummels Gaza with airstrikes, imposes a “complete siege” on the enclave, and prepares for a possible ground invasion to decimate Hamas, Netanyahu also needs to find a way to free the 150 or s o hostages being held by the militants inside Gaza. Some kind of negotiation – probably through intermediaries, such as Egypt – is inevitable. We’re not going to negotiate any peace with Hamas. “We negotiated peace with President Sadat a few years later, with majority support of the Knesset. That, though, was a war “that followed some kind of logic of norms and rules”, said Yohanan Plesner, president of the Israel Democracy Institute. History certainly provides a useful comparison: the last time Israeli intelligence failed to anything like this degree – and with so many casualties – was almost 50 years ago to the day, when Egypt and Syria invaded Israel on Yom Kippur. That was the case in 1973 with Golda Meir, in 1982 with Menachem Begin in the first Lebanon war, and in 2006, with Ehud Olmert, in the second Lebanon War. ![]() ![]() “Israeli history has taught us that each and every surprise and crisis led to the collapse of the government. “It would set a national precedent,” he told CNN. Indeed, according to Amit Segal, chief political commentator for Israel’s Channel 12, the surprise would be if Bibi’s prime ministership survives this war. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP) (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images) Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty ImagesĪ 'Pearl Harbor' moment: Why didn't Israel's sophisticated border security stop Saturday's attack?īut that time and place will come. Dozens of rockets were fired from the blockaded Gaza Strip towards Israel on October 7, 2023, an AFP journalist in the Palestinian territory said, as sirens warning of incoming fire blared in Israel. TOPSHOT - Rockets are fired from Gaza City towards Israel on October 7, 2023.
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