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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.”

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago

Netanyahu has sidestepped accountability

His entire life in four words.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not at all convinced he didn't want a little attack to rally people behind him, and it got away from him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not at all convinced he didn't want a worse attack.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Main Character syndrome.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

He has actually funded Hamas. If what you say is true, all this chaos and hatred looks very deliberate.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After listening to 30 mins of his interview with Lex Fridman this is the only thing I would expect him to do.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


“During war, leadership must act responsibly,” Benny Gantz, a former military chief of staff, posted on X, formerly Twitter, calling on Netanyahu to take back his words.

Shafran Gittleman pointed to his apparent refusal this year to accept their warnings that a planned overhaul of the country’s judiciary threatened state security.

Scores of senior reservists and fighter pilots, key pillars of the military, had threatened to stop serving if the overhaul continued, though they have rushed back to duty since Oct. 7.

Netanyahu’s allies and the core of his nationalist base say the Israeli leader is facing unfair and poorly timed criticism by the same figures in the media and in the public who have long opposed him.

It has shattered his carefully manicured image as a strong leader with burnished security credentials who has worked tirelessly to protect Israel from its myriad threats.

Noam Tibon, a former military general who was outspoken against the judicial overhaul and rescued his son and his family from the Hamas attack, said the country needed unity to win the war but that Netanyahu was sowing division.


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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hes playing with fire here, responsibility for the deaths of 2000 people.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

But time for that is yet to come, right now war is going on and bigger issues need dealing with.

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You Complete me

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?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I'll believe it when I see it. He left the border unguarded to protect illegal settlers instead yet nothing is happening to him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.