US intelligence report states Netanyahu's viability to lead Israel is in jeopardy

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

Updated 8:54 PM EDT, Mon March 11, 2024


CNN — The US intelligence community assesses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “viability as a leader” to be “in jeopardy,” according to its annual report on the national security threats facing the United States that was presented to Congress on Monday.

“Distrust of Netanyahu’s ability to rule has deepened and broadened across the public from its already high levels before the war, and we expect large protests demanding his resignation and new elections,” according to the report. “A different, more moderate government is a possibility.”

Netanyahu has faced fierce criticism within Israel for his government’s failure to predict or forestall the October 7 attack, when the terror group Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis and took 240 hostages. Public polling has also suggested that many Israelis question whether Netanyahu’s crushing military offensive in response now into its fifth month, which has leveled Gaza and killed tens of thousands of people, is the best way to recover the hostages.

The intelligence report notes that the Israeli population broadly supports the destruction of Hamas. But its assessment of Netanyahu’s political fortunes nevertheless delivers a stark report on a leader President Joe Biden once claimed to “love.” It comes amid an increasingly tense — and public — divide between the two leaders over the civilian toll in Gaza.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/politics/us-intelligence-report-netanyahu/index.html

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Long overdue for a change. . . . . nt

[Aussie105]

2. Netanyahu is a polarising figure.

Some of his supporters just want all Palestinians to be 'cleansed' any way possible, while others are afraid that is too fascist like, too much like a chapter from Jewish history.

How will this end?
Some sort of revolt within Israel, or invested countries like the US pulling support until the war ends?

[onetexan]

3. Bibi's like the Con - he's not going anywhere because remaining in power is the only way he escapes prosecution

[mopinko]

4. when it comes out that all/most of the hostages r dead, he falls.

esp if they were killed in the bombing. i’m sure he’ll do his best to cover that up. but i dont think he can hide it for long.

[Lonestarblue]

12. He'll just claim that Hamas killed them, not the IDF bombs.

Of course, there’s the illogic of Hamas killing their bargaining chips, but propaganda rules in these situations.

[EYESORE 9001]

5. I suppose Israel could do better than Bibi

Hard to imagine anyone worse.

[Earth-shine]

7. People said that about GW Bush. "How could it get worse"? The next Republican president was Trump.

[Earth-shine]

6. We need regime change in both Israel and Gaza.

[brooklynite]

8. Before you get excited...

Netanyahu's departure wouldn't trigger a new Knesset election, and any of his coalition partners would be far worse.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Who are you talking to regarding getting "excited"?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Ascension by his coalition partners would trigger a new Knesset election... Lose confidence motion. . . . nt

[brooklynite]

11. Netanyahu's coalition holds a majority; motion would fail.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. His coalition would fracture if he doesn't lead it. . . . . nt

[BumRushDaShow]

14. But you forgot this part

Israel formed a unity government. Who’s in the new emergency war cabinet?


By Steve Hendrix, Victoria Bisset and Ruby Mellen
October 12, 2023 at 10:29 a.m. EDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has struck a power-sharing deal with his political rival, centrist Benny Gantz, to form an emergency unity government that will oversee Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza. Netanyahu promised to “crush and eliminate” the militant group in a speech Wednesday evening, responding to Hamas’s deadly assault on Israel last weekend that claimed the lives of at least 1,300 people in Israel.

The “war cabinet” will be pivotal in what comes next. At least 1,354 people in Gaza have been killed, health authorities there said, as Israel pummels the enclave with airstrikes. Israeli troops are massing troops ahead of a potential ground assault in the Gaza Strip, where Hamas is holding more than 100 hostages it took from inside Israel — a group officials say includes Americans.

“Our standing here, shoulder to shoulder, is a clear message to our enemies, and more importantly, a message to all citizens of Israel — we are all together, we are all mobilizing,” Gantz said. Here’s what to know.

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What is Israel’s ‘war cabinet’ and who is in it?

Parliament is set to meet Thursday to approve the unity agreement with the opposition, which brings Gantz’s National Unity party — a centrist electoral coalition — into Netanyahu’s far-right governing coalition. Gantz, a former military chief of staff and leader of the Blue and White party, will also join a select war cabinet that will otherwise include only Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Other members of the opposition will join a broader security cabinet.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/12/israel-unity-government-netanyahu-gantz/

This is why that outreach to Gantz, who had been invited to the White House (and who VP Harris has spoken with).