Since the day he returned to power, Benjamin Netanyahu has abandoned Israel’s security and that of its citizens. Netanyahu has damaged, compromised and weakened national security – and has done so knowingly, for narrow political and personal considerations, which run counter to the public interest. This is ongoing, systemic damage in all arenas, constituting an unprecedented phenomenon in Israel’s history and overwhelming proof of his unfitness for office.
In his temerity, or insanity, he even dared accuse the former government, the opposition and the protest movement for the security avalanche he has brought down upon Israel in a hundred graceless days. A frightening reminder of dictators detached from reality who, in the twilight of their reigns, from the depths of their bunkers, blamed the entire world for their own failures and defeats.
Netanyahu has abandoned Israel’s internal security to a Kahanist TikTok clown, a serial offender convicted of membership in a terror organization, whom the army declined to draft, a long-time Shin Bet intelligence target, a pyromaniac provocateur, devoid of any managerial or operational experience. At this person’s request, Netanyahu also changed the name of the ministry to the “National Security Ministry.” Upon entering office, the minister was quick to sneak up to the Temple Mount for a photo op, to intervene in the pita-baking and shower-taking of Palestinian prisoners and to sow chaos in the police and its chain of command. Netanyahu, for his part, promised him an outrageous subjugation of Border Police troops in the territories, and the establishment of a “National Guard” under his command.
At the Defense Ministry, Netanyahu appointed a wholly reasonable minister (a fundamentally moderate and experienced former IDF general), but concurrently tore the ministry apart, entrusting the fundamentalist Bezalel Smotrich with the responsibility for everyday life in the West Bank. Here, as with the police, Netanyahu ignored the warnings of the professional echelon regarding the dire damage to the unity of command, and the clear and present danger to security.
Upon the start of the protests against the regime coup, Netanyahu allowed his son, and the poison-spewing machine he operates – which includes media figures, ministers and Members of Knesset – to viciously attack the military, the Shin Bet security service, and the police. A similar fate awaited the reservists from the Air Force, intelligence and special ops units who joined the protests, announcing that they would not volunteer to serve in a dictatorship. Netanyahu refrained for months from convening the security cabinet simply because he didn’t want to give a platform to the warnings of the security establishment about the increasing risks in the Palestinian, Lebanese and Iranian theaters.
Then came the worst: The firing of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant just because he called for a halt to the legislative upheaval in order to safeguard Israel’s security, then leaving him in office conditionally, while negotiating the wording of the apology which would allow the Netanyahu family to forgive him.
Even before Gallant’s firing, Netanyahu canceled important security hearings and wasted his time on lavish weekend jaunts to Europe, the diplomatic benefit of which amounted to nothing at all. One of these even featured the duping of the stunned Air Force commander, who dispatched a chopper, flown by a squadron commander and a reserve pilot, only to discover that the prime minister and his wife had already snuck into Ben-Gurion Airport via police helicopter that took off from a nuclear bunker in the Jerusalem Hills. (Left unaddressed was the dissemination of the video of the takeoff, which constitutes a grave censorship violation.)
The tectonic rift in the reserve army; the murderous shootings and vehicular terror attacks on both sides of the Green Line; the incursion of a Hezbollah terror squad, all the way from the Lebanese border to Megiddo; the dozens of rockets fired on the western Galilee; the frequent rocket fire from Gaza; the Temple Mount riots, and everything to come – are all the direct responsibility of the man who has decided to abandon the security of Israel, its citizens and its troops.
How Netanyahu Forsook Israel’s Security
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Since the day he returned to power, Benjamin Netanyahu has abandoned Israel’s security and that of its citizens. Netanyahu has damaged, compromised and weakened national security – and has done so knowingly, for narrow political and personal considerations, which run counter to the public interest. This is ongoing, systemic damage in all arenas, constituting an unprecedented phenomenon in Israel’s history and overwhelming proof of his unfitness for office.
In his temerity, or insanity, he even dared accuse the former government, the opposition and the protest movement for the security avalanche he has brought down upon Israel in a hundred graceless days. A frightening reminder of dictators detached from reality who, in the twilight of their reigns, from the depths of their bunkers, blamed the entire world for their own failures and defeats.
Netanyahu has abandoned Israel’s internal security to a Kahanist TikTok clown, a serial offender convicted of membership in a terror organization, whom the army declined to draft, a long-time Shin Bet........
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