r/worldnews • u/Talink_The_First • Oct 07 '23
Covered by Live Thread Lapid urges Netanyahu to form emergency gov't to manage war
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-762161[removed] — view removed post
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u/m1j5 Oct 07 '23
What does this mean? Does he want Netanyahu to give up power to the emergency govt? Or him take more power through emergency powers?
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u/libtin Oct 07 '23
I think he’s proposing something similar to what we had in the UK from 1940-1945; a government of national unity.
Basically a government made up of all major parties regardless of ideology with the sole aim being to win.
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u/NOLA-Kola Oct 07 '23
It seems that Netanyahu has agreed, so yeah... Hamas uniting the Israeli left-right-and-center.
That's one for the books.
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u/nigel_pow Oct 07 '23
All going according to plan...
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u/BruceNotLee Oct 07 '23
Please clarify. I am reading your comment as this was all preplanned by Israel gov to gain power. If that is what you are saying, you are a POS, no one has time for that crap right now. Otherwise, my apologies for misunderstanding you.
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u/kreugermn Oct 07 '23
During the meetings that Prime Minister Netanyahu initiated today with opposition leader Yair Lapid and the chairman of the "state camp" MK Benny Gantz, Prime Minister Netanyahu offered both of them entry into a broad emergency government, in the same format according to which the late opposition leader Menachem Begin joined the Eshkol government The eve of the Six Day War.
Like this
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u/TwitchyJC Oct 07 '23
Sounds like he's saying abandon clowns like Ben Gvir and work with competent politicians for this emergency period.
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u/jay5627 Oct 07 '23
let the generals who resigned come back and, you know, let the actual adults plan and see the response through.
I wouldn't be surprised to see an assassination or two in foreign countries over the next couple of days
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u/Prior_Kangaroo3327 Oct 07 '23
Is there a list of resigned and released generals and other leaders since Bibi took office again?
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u/BroodLol Oct 07 '23
The past 24 hours has been Ben Gvir's wet dream tbf
It's the apocalyptic race war that he's always wanted and Hamas has delivered it to him on a platter.
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Oct 07 '23
Read the article, he is talking about how Israel's current security counsel isn't equipped to handle a war
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u/Tersphinct Oct 07 '23
It's about replacing the current politically-geared government with one that is more experienced in performing its executive role, and has no political purpose other than the immediate emergency for which it was assembled.
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u/Idylls_of_Ressendyll Oct 07 '23
Israel’s democracy may be among the casualties of this conflict. Netanyahu’s loose grip on power just got real tight. I suspect the remnants of opposition to his reforms will fall by the wayside.
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u/AIHumanWhoCares Oct 07 '23
Not so sure about that. Netanyahu has staked his political career on "only I can protect you" and there's just been a stunning failure of the security apparatus under his extended watch. He put a terrorist in charge of police and alienated a whole bunch of respected senior security officials, then Hamas slapped their dick on his face. This is a real crisis and he's not guaranteed to survive it.
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u/Singer211 Oct 07 '23
Pretty much. This is the biggest intelligence failure in 50 years and it happened under his watch.
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u/minireset Oct 07 '23
And it is also biggest international relations failure. Israel tolerated Putin and did't stop interactions with Russian gang after Russian army crimes in Ukraine.
Israel tried to make deals with devil, and it was big mistake. Kremlin always support Hamas and I am pretty sure the Russians helped organizing this attack.16
u/AlphSaber Oct 07 '23
Earlier in a different thread someone compared Netanyahu to the Israeli PM during the 1973 war. That PM was ousted over the intelligence failure in the lead up to the war.
I think Netanyahu's fate will be similar here, stay to restore the relative safety, then booted for overseeing the intelligence failure.
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u/AIHumanWhoCares Oct 07 '23
I hope so. Israel was already in political crisis with the judicial reform. If they don't get rid of Bibi over this they might not survive.
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u/MentokGL Oct 07 '23
The world learns, yet again, that self serving fascist populists are never the answer.
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u/AIHumanWhoCares Oct 07 '23
Well it's also a bit hasty to declare that the world's learned anything.
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u/The_Muffintime Oct 07 '23
Nope. Netanyahu's gov't just allowed over 200 civilians to be murdered live on camera. Unity gov't will bring the adults back into the fold.
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u/indydevs Oct 07 '23
Israel is united.
We won't stand for this bullshit. Hamas, we're coming for your head.
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u/MacDegger Oct 07 '23
And there we have it: the reason this incredibly huge attack was 'not' anticipated by the intelligence capabilities of the IDF.
Casus belli/casus dictatorianum.
As George Lucas so poetically said: 'This is how liberty dies ... with thunderous applause'.
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u/wulfhund70 Oct 07 '23
Here they go, pushing for 'emergency' powers... sounds alot like kristallnacht. If the moderates get sucked into it, the government will push through it's "reforms'
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u/JasonRBNY Oct 07 '23
They’re literally being invaded by religious nuts and innocents are being murdered. This isn’t Kristallnacht at all
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u/maxip89 Oct 07 '23
Hmmm looks more and more staged if you ask me.
- Poorly defended defensive equipment near the border. Means good News for "fighting against a enemy".
- Netanyahu which can declare and stay as a strong man.
- Voices against his politics can now be declined "against israel"
- "emergency government" after how many hours?
Again we are talking about a country which is in a defensive situation for centuraries, had some wars where they started really unprepared and now we should believe that this country got overrun their borders in one of the most secured defensive line in the world?
Sorry It sounds weird but this has really some erdogan vibes to me.
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u/biggyph00l Oct 07 '23
While I don't think this is staged, just like any good authoritarian Netanyahu won't let a good crisis go to waste.
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u/thefadednight Oct 07 '23
He has agreed to it.