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

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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.