Benjamin Netanyahu’s hold on power in Tel Aviv suffered two setbacks on Wednesday. Messages from a member of his Likud Party surfaced asserting Netanyahu’s days in office “are numbered.” Additionally, the head of the opposition in Israel, Yair Lapid, demanded the prime minister resign.
Galit Distel Atbaryan, a Likud member of the Knesset, sent private Telegram messages slamming the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “I have a great anger toward Netanyahu, fury that is burning me from inside,” she said. “The days of this government are numbered, that’s completely clear.”
The Times of Israel describes Distel Atbaryan as “a firebrand who was seen as a Netanyahu loyalist.” She was a minister in Netanyahu’s government but resigned in the days following the Hamas attack on southern Israel.
In a second blow to Netanyahu, Lapid demanded his resignation on Israeli Channel 12. “This government isn’t functioning, we need change, Netanyahu cannot continue to be prime minister, we cannot allow ourselves to conduct a prolonged [military] campaign with a prime minister that the public has no faith in.” He continued. “Security-wise and on the society level, we cannot have a premier who has lost the trust of the public.”
After the Hamas attack on southern Israel that killed over 1,200 people, Netanyahu’s popularity among Israelis has plummeted. A poll conducted by Bar Ilan University released this week shows that less than 4 percent of Jewish Israelis trust Netanyahu.
Lapid said he was willing to work with members of Netanyahu’s Likud to oust the leader.
“We will sit [in government] under another candidate from the Likud,” he said. Lapid claimed to have spoken with members of the Likud, and “There are many people there who understand the country is going to a bad place.”
He added, “Netanyahu needs to go now during the fighting.”
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry?………………………………………………..
In comparison with most other leading politicians in the currently-dominant seven-party coalition government of Israel, Bibi is fairly moderate. His replacement is likely to be worse.
Who are you comparing him to in this assessment?
“. . . most other leading politicians in the currently-dominant seven-party coalition government of Israel.”
Likud, United Torah Judaism, Shas, Religious Zionist Party, Otzma Yehudit, Noam and National Unity
under a rather unique definition of “moderate”, but I agree …
Yeah, but when you run through the list of those crazies, it fits in this context. They are really awful people. For many of them, “fascist religious fanatic” is a fair description. These are not the Labor Zionists of Israel’s earlier decades.
Natanyahu needs go alright… that is six feet under…!
Not so fast Sally! Netanyahu May have to do something stupid to force this emergency government going just like Zelenskyy.
“…less than 4 percent of J@wish Israelis trust Netanyahu.” What kind of Zioni$t do you have to be to keep on trusting Netanyahu?
The deeper point is not that he is invested in genocide, but that he didn’t protect them. So that kind of Zionist.
“Galit Distel Atbaryan, a Likud member of the Knesset, sent private Telegram messages slamming the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “I have a great anger toward Netanyahu, fury that is burning me from inside,” she said. “The days of this government are numbered, that’s completely clear.””
This is the same Atbaryan who wants to “erase Gaza from the earth.” She’s probably just pissed that Fuhreryahoo hasn’t killed enough people.
They can see the writing on the wall so there covering their arse while Bibi’s resignation will be damage control.
He shouldn’t be allowed to resign he ought to be arrested and placed in handcuffs along with a few others.
Like anyone else we might know?
Look towards the military.
The point here is that international law’s are not backed up with anything and they know it that’s why they keep committing these atrocities against mankind.
f.e. The Nuremberg trials only ever processed a couple of hundred Nazi war criminals while thousands of Nazi’s made it to the US as a paperclip and don’t forget the ones who became NATO generals.
In the end it appears that everything is up to us, somehow we must turn this around by demanding that this madness ends.
Unfortunately we have a terrible record for holding politicians accountable, instead of serving us we allow them to bully and torment us.
Nuremberg established two things:
1) The winners get away with their war crimes; and
2) Some of the losers (the ones who are more valuable to the winners swinging from a rope for propaganda purposes than .e. working for the winners’ intelligence, rocketry, etc., agencies) get made examples of.
aka, end the madness within ourselves. eschew this altogether, which is nigh impossible for humans, but must be achieved.
or at least aspired to.
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Fear.apathy,contentment,racism or what have you have contributed to the shit storm coming. Whether it will be WW3 or the establishment of right wing fascism in the US does not matter. Either way we the citizens will suffer or die
He will not resign. Its a path straight to jail. He will have to be dragged out dead or alive. Either way works for me.
Wishful thinking. He has nine lives.
He needs to return to Hell.
right then, Yair Lapid is supposedly an ally of Netanyahu and simultaneously an opposition leader as well – is that like having your cake and eating it too ?
“prolonged [military] campaign”?It is a massacre, genocide. To be followed by ethnic cleansing. If he goes, what will take his place, Ben-Gvir?