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Misuse Case Oct 11, 2023

This feels like an admission that the success of Hamas’ attack on #Israel wasn’t due as much to brilliance or Russian/Iranian skullduggery as the utter incompetence of #Netanyahu’s right-wing government and cabinet. Bibi’s chucklefucks wouldn’t be able to handle the aftermath either.

I’d like to think that this unity government might provide some chance of relief for #Palestinian people too but I’m not too sure.

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/11/hamas-israel-war-gantz-netanyahu-unity-government

Israel's Netanyahu forms unity government with ex-Defense Minister Gantz

The move underscores how big the crisis in Israel is as a result of the Hamas attack.

Axios

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Misuse Case Oct 11, 2023

A real tinfoil-hat-but-still-plausible theory is that Netanyahu knew that the #Hamas attack on #Israel or something like it was going to happen and let it happen anyway.

If you’ve been paying attention, he has been facing a lot of domestic lately, including from military reservists and members of the internal intelligence service. He might have seen this as a good opportunity to get them in line/discipline them, plus push the envelope on atrocities against #Palestinian people.

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Misuse Case

What’s 1000+ dead Israelis and a couple hundred hostages (that he may yet write off as a loss) if you get to solidify your control over the rest? And push for war with Iran? I wouldn’t put it past him.

If that’s the case it hasn’t worked out quite like he planned, though. Many media outlets in #Israel and former members of the military and intelligence community there are already blaming him for what is at best a serious intelligence failure.

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Misuse Case Oct 11, 2023

There’s nothing to be happy about though. A lot of Israeli civilians are dead, many more #Palestinians are dead and will be dead, a lot of journalists and aid workers in #Gaza are going to end up as collateral damage, some blowhards think the most important thing right now is scolding people who point out the state of #Israel’s human rights abuses, and as is often the case those of us in the #Jewish #Disapora will suffer blowback from the actions of Netanyahu’s right-wing government.

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Paul Cantrell Oct 11, 2023

@MisuseCase
The version of this I completely believe is not that he •planned• this, but simply that he wanted it in the same way that a drunk asshole in a bar wants a fight, and let it happen through passivity and neglect. I think the same thing about 9/11. If some part of you wants the war, why burn energy preventing it? Intelligence and diplomacy are hard.