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Israel’s main opposition leader Yair Lapid made headlines once more on Monday. Calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s resignation for the colossal intelligence failure on Oct. 7, Lapid echoed a growing sentiment among the Israeli population and even within the incumbent’s own government of right-wing extremists.
“He who has failed in this way can’t continue,” he said. Lapid added that Netanyahu, under whose watch Hamas fighters broke out of Gaza and killed more than 1,200 people, “should go.”
I agree with Lapid; Netanyahu should go. However, he should not resign for the reasons the opposition leader has stated. No, Netanyahu’s crime goes far beyond assuming what happened on Oct. 7 was a result of an intelligence oversight, security negligence and/or divisive politics, which this government toyed with from the get-go.
What happened on Oct. 7 was a direct result of 16 years of Netanyahu’s long-standing and deliberate policy of “propping up” Hamas, a group which he himself describes as terrorists, and........

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