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'A gift to Israel': Liberman calls for elections for first time since October 7
Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Liberman called for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down and for the country to head to an election, in an interview on Sunday on Army Radio.
In recent months, he has opposed an election due to what he argued would be its negative effect on the war effort; his comments on Sunday were the first time he joined his fellow opposition parties in calling for an election.
Liberman attributed his change of opinion to public feuds over the past between Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Minister-without-Portfolio Benny Gantz, all members of the war cabinet.
“When three members of the [war] cabinet act against each other, there is no chance to make any moves, and the slogan ‘together we will win’ is just a slogan,” Liberman said.
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Ehud Barak to Foreign Affairs: Israel has a leadership vacuum
Former prime minister Ehud Barak wrote to the Foreign Affairs magazine on Sunday, calling for early elections in Israel to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Barak began his argument by stating that the past four months of war have highlighted two different portrayals of Israel:
"On the one hand, the war has showcased the tactical prowess of the IDF [...] and promoted a sense of solidarity among Israeli citizens [...] On the other hand, the war has revealed the staggering strategic incompetence of the Israeli government and an astonishing leadership vacuum at the top."
Ehud Barak, Foreign Affairs Magazine
He then compared David Ben-Gurion (Israel's first prime minister) and Netanyahu, calling the current Prime Minister "narcissistic, manipulative, [and] shortsighted." Barak then says that while it might seem like Netanyahu has accepted the two-state solution proposals suggested by the US and most recently by Biden's administration. however, on the four occasions in which the solution was raised, Netanyahu has "always torpedoed it," according to Barak.
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Unite the Left, topple Netanyahu's government: Yair Golan's two goals
On the morning of October 7, after receiving a call from his sister that Hamas terrorists had begun to invade towns near the Gaza border, Maj.-Gen. (res.) and former Meretz MK Yair Golan launched a heroic one-man rescue mission and drove in and out of the battle zones, rescuing a number of survivors.
Reflecting back on that fateful day, however, Golan remembers one feeling in particular: rage.
“I remember the moment,” Golan said in an interview at an office space he works out of in Tel Aviv. “I was west of Route 232 [near the Gaza border], and when I came back on the road with the third rescued person, I saw a car with a young Israeli woman’s dead body spilling out of it. The feeling that came up was terrible rage, terrible anger.
“Anger not just that we were disgraced as a state; and not just that the army that I care so much about, and served in for 38 years, was disgraced. Mostly terrible anger that I know how much we brought this onto ourselves.
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