Israeli minister vows to quit war cabinet if PM fails to agree new Gaza plan

Paragone, 24 days ago

Idiocy.

He’d do greater-good by remaining in-place & continuing insisting on getting things right, then he would be getting out of abuse’s way, & facilitating its more-complete highjacking of the country.

Same with all the leftists who vacated-authority-roles “in protest”, handing them to MAGA enforcers.

Giving authority to the ones you “claim” you oppose, “in protest”, is self-delusion, not means-of-victory.

Fools, ruled by feelings, instead of by objectivity & reason, giving greater leverage to their claimed enemy.

No point in pretending that that “strategy” is going to actually-win, is there?

Just throwing leverage away, for sake of feelings & social-assertion.

And then, later, whining that they’re not winning…

TacticsConsort, 24 days ago

Holy shit, this is a REALLY misleading headline.

if it was just him quitting, that would be terrible; it would be an anti-war person giving up their power to legally obstruct the war.

It’s “his opposition National Unity party will withdraw from the coalition government”. Unless this article is missing something, wouldn’t breaking up the coalition just basically completely paralyse Israel??

breakfastmtn, 24 days ago

Netanyahu doesn’t need Gantz’s party to remain in power. They’d lose a more moderate voice in the war cabinet. The Unity government would probably lose legitimacy in the eyes of most Israelis. It would be very bad for Netanyahu politically. It would also probably be good for Gantz politically, as recent polling suggests that he might be starting to get some of Netanyahu’s stink on him.

ripcord, 24 days ago

OK, but the subtitle makes it pretty clear. As does tbe, you know, the article.

GlassHalfHopeful, 24 days ago

Is this good…? Do they have enough influence to make a difference.

breakfastmtn, 24 days ago

It’s complicated. They don’t have the ability to bring down the government but both Gantz and Gallant are much more popular than Netanyahu. Netanyahu’s choice (again) comes down to placating the far-right to keep his government in power in the short-term at the expense of further alienating the Israeli public. If he bows to this pressure, the far-right might topple his government immediately. All paths probably lead to electoral (then legal) doom for Netanyahu at some point.

GlassHalfHopeful, 24 days ago

I wonder if he’s the kind of maniacal leader that puts maintaining power and control first because he genuinely believes he has a plan to better his people, or…

is he’s the maniacal leader that puts maintaining power and control first because… power and control are simply all that matters…

I wonder which is more dangerous.

I wonder if it matters at this point.

NoIWontPickAName, 24 days ago

He’s looking at jail time in some corruption cases IIRC

VaultBoyNewVegas, 24 days ago

Yup. There was a trial a a year or two ago (maybe three now) before he got into power again. I don’t remember it concluding because he was elected while it was taking place.

girlfreddy, 24 days ago

It’s still ongoing.

en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Trial_of_Benjamin_Netanyahu

Thrashy, 24 days ago

This is the thing. Netanyahu is a sociopath who needs a forever war or else he eventually has to face the music. Without outside military intervention, this only ends in one of two ways:

1. either Bibi drags it out long enough to ethnically cleanse all of Gaza, claim he defeated Hamas, and memory-hole the intelligence failures that allowed the October 7 attacks to succeed in the first place, or
2. he loses control of his political coalition, elections are called, and he’s quickly removed from his PM position, put on trial for corruption and then thrown in prison for what will probably be the rest of his life.

Prolonging the war doesn’t guarantee he won’t end up in scenario 2 anyway, but from his perspective at the very least he’s running out the clock. Dead Gazans (and to a lesser extent dead Israelis) don’t matter to him.

njm1314, 24 days ago

I mean there’s a reason he’s been propping up a Hamas for so long. Also a reason why he failed act on intelligence warning him of October 7th.