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Sun 26 Jan 2025 9:05 am - Jerusalem Time

Netanyahu's dilemma and defeat



Netanyahu has become shaken, his actions and alliances are contradictory, and his political projects are conflicting. On the one hand, he is a prisoner between the movements of the Israeli street demanding the continuation of the ceasefire, the implementation of the steps of the truce deal, and the release of prisoners, according to the exchange equation. In confirmation of this trend, he receives instructions issued by the firm American President Trump to cease the fire and implement the steps of the truce, through the American advisor and the President’s envoy, Steve Witkoff.

On the other hand, he is under internal pressure from the right-wing and religious extremist coalition parties to reject a ceasefire, reject a prisoner exchange, and continue the war.

On the third hand, the military and security establishment, whose leaders are resigning, faces protest, negligence, or a desire for priorities other than those demanded by the coalition government parties.

The resignation of the Chief of Staff of the Army, Herzi Halevi, and with him the commander of the southern military region adjacent to the Gaza Strip, Yaron Falkman, and before them the resignation of the head of the military intelligence service "Aman" affiliated with the army, Aharon Halifa.

The war generals resign one after the other, or as their journalistic circles say, one of them falls after the other, against the backdrop of failures. They were exposed to an unprecedented failure on October 7, 2023, which constituted a shock or surprise that had not happened before, with the exception of the October War in 1973, by Egypt and Syria, which led to the trial of Golda Meir on the basis of negligence.

A political conflict between Netanyahu's coalition team in the government on the one hand and the military establishment and the three security institutions: Aman, Shabak and Mossad, on the other hand, against the backdrop of the October 7 operation.

Netanyahu refuses to form a civilian and military investigation committee, under the pretext that he is still in a state of war, and that it will not stop until he achieves complete victory, but he failed to achieve his goal, and his failure increased and accumulated with the ceasefire, and the release of Palestinian prisoners "whose hands are stained with Jewish blood," according to the description of Ben Gvir, who withdrew from the government because of this, and Smotrich, who threatens to withdraw and bring down the government against the backdrop of these results.

Netanyahu is using all pretexts and arguments to evade the formation of an official investigation committee that will lead to his trial for negligence, and he will be overthrown on the basis of negligence on October 7, as happened to Golda Meir in 1973, and as happened to Menachem Begin in 1982 following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

Netanyahu is evading internal responsibilities, just as he is evading international demands, especially from the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, against the backdrop of crimes, ethnic cleansing and the deliberate killing of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. He has turned and will turn into a war criminal, despite all the support that President Trump can provide him. The blatant crimes against civilians and the comprehensive destruction of the Gaza Strip are serious evidence that no one can hide. Here is Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s advisor, who will come to see what happened in the Gaza Strip, and thus he will stand practically and realistically and see what happened to the Gaza Strip and its suffering people.

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Netanyahu's dilemma and defeat