Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that a politically appointed commission of inquiry into the failings surrounding the October 7, 2023, invasion must include an examination of the 1993 Oslo Accords, the 2005 Disengagement from Gaza, and the 2023 protest movement against the current government’s judicial overhaul agenda.

Netanyahu made his comments after a key ministerial committee gave coalition backing to a contentious bill that would create a new type of commission of inquiry, whose members would be picked by the Knesset, instead of the Supreme Court president, as mandated under the current law for state commissions of inquiry.

The legislation, a private members bill introduced by Likud MK Ariel Kallner, will now come to the Knesset plenum for a preliminary reading this Wednesday.

According to a government source, Netanyahu told the committee in its first meeting on Monday afternoon that the investigation into the events of October 7 must reach back decades, “from Oslo, through to the [Gaza] Disengagement, and up to [reserve duty] refusal.”

He was referring in the latter part of his comments to the declaration of some opponents of the government’s judicial overhaul agenda in 2023 that they were discontinuing their service in the IDF reserves in protest.

Opposition leaders denounced the government’s efforts to create a new investigative mechanism instead of establishing a state commission of inquiry, with Opposition Leader Yair Lapid saying it was designed to “bury the truth” and hoodwink the Israeli public.

Under the terms of Kallner’s bill, the members of the commission of inquiry would be appointed in a vote in the Knesset plenum of at........

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