More Condemnations within Israel of Netanyahu Government

Demonstration against war in Gaza in Tel Aviv, January 18, 2024.

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on January 26 that the previous day 26 former senior Israeli security officials and 17 senior officials in the civil field, including three Nobel Prize winners, signed a public letter calling for the dismissal of the Prime Minister of the occupation government Benjamin Netanyahu, following the failures of the war in Gaza. They consider him unqualified to lead Israel and that his hands are stained with Israeli blood.

Among the prominent names included in the letter are former ministers and chiefs of staff in the occupation army and former heads of the intelligence services, such as Moshe Yaalon, Dan Halutz, Tamir Pardo, Nadav Argaman, Assaf Hefetz and Yaakov Peri, all of whom have headed the Israeli security services or held high-ranking positions. The signatories added to their previous claims that Netanyahu's effort "to destroy democracy" "bears primary responsibility for creating the circumstances leading to the brutal massacre of over 1,200 Israelis and others, the injury of over 4,500, and the kidnapping of more than 230 individuals, of whom over 130 are still held in Hamas captivity. The victims' blood is on Netanyahu's hands." They also noted that he was fundamentally and morally incompetent to lead Israel into war and posed a direct and existential threat to the State of Israel.

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Volume 54 Number 8 - January 31, 2024

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