A new poll found that the vast majority of Israelis say the Hamas attack on southern Israel was caused by a failure in the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and a smaller majority want Netanyahu to resign once the conflict is over.
In the poll released by the Dialog Center, 86% of the people asked, including 79% of supporters of Netanyahu’s governing coalition, said the surprise attack from Gaza was a failure of the country’s leadership.
The poll also found that 56% of respondents want Netanyahu to resign at the end of the conflict, and 52% also want to see the resignation of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
The Hamas attack on October 7 has raised questions about how the Israeli government could not be aware that such a large operation was about to be launched from Gaza, which has been under Israeli blockade since 2007 and is under heavy surveillance. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) on Wednesday confirmed reports that said Egypt warned Israel before the attack that something big was coming.
Netanyahu has also come under criticism for his strategy of propping up Hamas to divide Gaza from Palestinian leadership in the West Bank. “Those who want to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state should support the strengthening of Hamas and the transfer of money to Hamas,” Netanyahu said at a Likud party meeting in 2019. “This is part of our strategy, to differentiate between the Palestinians in Gaza and the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).”
The Israelis have a lot in common with us. If we lose a battle, it’s because we were not brutal enough–not because the battle was our fault to start with. Miko Peled: “Someone wrote- Israel is turning Gaza from a concentration camp to an extermination camp.“
Yes, but this writing was on the wall a long time ago.
This most likely indicates the Saturday Judicial protest would continue in Israel…!
So did the Haaretz newspaper. You treat captive populations like “animals”, they will become feral.
With the outcome similar to protests in the US against the fascist SCOTUS>
it seems Israeli voters are smarter than US voters.
Don’t count your chickens.
Half of em anyway.
Yup, Bibi and some of his cronies are finished. Probably not until the current crisis calms down, but they’re finished.
If only wishing could make it so. There will always Zionists who will never let go of Palestine.
Oh, yes, but screwing up as badly as Bibi and his gang have is probably not survivable in Israeli politics. The trend is to the hard right, of course, so there’s a good chance the next bunch will be even worse.
There is beginning to be information available that indicates Israel was warned by more than one Intelligence Agency of a pending attack and for what ever reason neglected to take necessary actions.
It wasn’t a failure, it was deliberate. Netanyahu set Hamas up.
Once again this is just ignoring and avoiding to face the truth. The occupation, and the destructive apartheid Israeli policies and racism.
They blame Netanyahu for the attack.
They should be blaming him for the lack of peace that led to the attack.
That attack was a tactic. The real failure is strategic: lack of peace, lack of a deal with the Palestinians.