Netanyahu is slippery, but he may be coming to the end of the line. From Seymour Hersh at seymourhersh.substack.com:
The Israeli prime minister faces mounting opposition from abroad and new resistance from his own military
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement during a reception hosted by Newsmax in Jerusalem on August 13. / Photo by Ronen Zvulun / Pool / AFP via Getty Images.
The late Abba Eban, the erudite Israeli politician and diplomat who served as foreign minister from 1966 to 1974, said it best decades ago: “History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”
Eban died at age 87 in 2002. Were he still with us, he would be stunned to learn that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has pushed Israel to the edge of the moral abyss, backed by the nation’s religious extremists, is not yet done with the killing and starvation of Palestinians.
His latest gambit, made public in an interview last week with Fox News, is a plan for the beleaguered Israel Defense Forces to take control of all of Gaza. The estimated 2.1 million surviving Gazans would be moved to three previously disclosed planned resettlement camps along the Mediterranean coast in Gaza that would be protected and supplied by the over-deployed IDF, whose troops also would temporarily take control of all of Gaza.
The Israeli military’s chief of staff, Army Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, who took office in March, immediately objected to the proposed new assignment. He cited the exhaustion and fitness of the Army’s regular and reserve forces, many of whom have been on and off active duty on tours lasting forty weeks or more. The general also made it clear that putting the over-stretched army in charge of the surviving population of Gaza would not be possible.
Big laugh earlier at the comments section after Lindsay Grahamnesty said that we will be punished if we abandon Israel and watching Newsmax founder say that we are all Israeli after October 7.
Speak for yourself and don’t include me in your delusion.
“The Israeli military’s chief of staff, Army Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, who took office in March, immediately objected to the proposed new assignment.”
Not for any ethical reasons, though.