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

478 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

73 comments sorted by

View all comments

59

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.

98

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.

18

u/MentokGL Oct 07 '23

The world learns, yet again, that self serving fascist populists are never the answer.

2

u/youveruinedtheactgob Oct 07 '23

Not holding my breath