Posted on 07/17/2014 8:35:46 AM PDT by Star Traveler
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did what he had to do when he fired Danny Danon, who rudely and insolently attacked him and criticized the policy of his defense minister, Moshe Ya'alon.
If it were possible, Danon would not be the only one Netanyahu would fire. If it were possible and would not jeopardize his government, he would also fire Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
We have probably never seen such a thing before, not even in wars with less national agreement than in the current operation: In the midst of a battle, while IDF soldiers are deployed on the outskirts of Gaza, the foreign minister convenes a press conference in which he refers to Netanyahu's policy as tormented, hesitant and uncertain.
Lieberman, who is a cabinet member and a senior partner in the coalition, presents a different stance which contradicts the one the cabinet decided on several hours earlier, and that is to go all the way – in other words, to occupy the entire Gaza Strip and control it.
Lieberman and Danon are not the only ones. Naftali Bennett too, until the cabinet vote, did not miss an opportunity to express his dissatisfaction with the handling of the operation in public.
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I’ve never seen world support so strong as it is in this current situation, and that’s because Israel has a great leader, such as Netanyahu.
Liberman’s unacceptable war on Netanyahu [Israel]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3181417/posts
If the foreign minister thinks the prime minister is doing a lousy job, he should either shut up when outvoted or quit, not publicly undermine the PM at the height of a bitter conflict with Hamas.
Israel is currently a nation at war. It has been targeted with some 1,300 rockets over the past eight days fired at its population almost everywhere in the country.
Untenably, on Tuesday, Liberman sought to score points at the expense of Israelis’ faith in their leadership. Whether his prescription for Gaza is right or wrong — does Israel really want to reconquer Gaza and retake responsibility for 1.6 million Palestinians there? How many Israelis might die in the process? How will Israel’s international legitimacy be affected? Are there better ways to de-fang Hamas, including via the quietly flourishing Israeli-Egyptian axis? — the fact is that he was not elected to run this country. If he thinks the man who was is doing a lousy job, he should quit the government, not undermine it from within. Least of all from his position at the helm of Israel’s entire diplomatic hierarchy
The foreign minister is not the only prominent Israeli government politician to be openly opposing Netanyahu. Lesser-known figures including ministers Yisrael Katz (Likud) and Uzi Landau (Yisrael Beytenu), and Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon (Likud) were also spouting criticism in the course of Tuesday, and the eminently dispensable Danon was fired later Tuesday. But Liberman is the prime minister’s former bureau chief and was his political partner going into January 2013’s elections, when their two parties ran on a joint list (a partnership Liberman abrogated last week). He is seen as someone who knows the prime minister well, and here he is telling us that Netanyahu doesn’t know what he’s doing.
The Danon effect: Rightists tone down criticism of PM [israel]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3181259/posts
The dismissal of Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon on Tuesday night had an immediate dampening effect on the right wing’s criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Danon was fired after publicly opposing the cabinet’s decision to accept a cease-fire with Hamas.
“Firing Danon was intended to send a clear message to our ministers and MKs that Netanyahu has lost his patience and will take harsh measures against those who come out against him at this time,” a hawkish Likud MK said.
He said that in view of the critical statements made by other ministers and MKs, such as Gideon Sa’ar, Gilad Erdan and Miri Regev, Netanyahu had no choice. “Netanyahu lost control over quite a few party members who blasted his policy publicly. Danon is only a symptom of a much wider trend,” he said.
You can bet that ham-ass didn’t have their fingers crossed behind their back during the agreement talks either. Just some slack time for them to cobble up some more ka-doucha rockets.
They’re talking about the cease-fire that Israel accepted but HAMAS REJECTED! And Israel kept right on going after Hamas since they rejected it.
Netanyahu is playing cautious politics here in an ever-cloudy crystal ball. The less fuss in the news, the better, in a perilous time.
Could Israel occupy Gaza? I do not doubt it in the slightest. Would it keep peace in Gaza? Probably so. Would it produce a huge world stink? Why, of course. Would Israel care about the stink? A little, but not enough to stop.
So why doesn’t Israel do it? Because of the erratic Big Ears.
Ceasefire negotiations bring Gaza ground operation closer than ever [Israel and Hamas]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3181458/posts
Israel’s determination to demilitarize Gaza and Hamas’ desire to shed Israeli blood could well mean IDF boots on the ground before calm is restored.
Negotiations for a ceasefire moved into a serious stage on Wednesday night, but - absurdly – an IDF ground operation in Gaza seems closer than ever, and is apparently inevitable.
This is down to the fact that Hamas is now trying with all its might, or rather last of its strength, to gain some kind of operational achievement, one that, if realized, could lead to the deaths of Israeli civilians and soldiers. On Wednesday night, the IDF thwarted a massive infiltration attempt through a tunnel dug in Gaza and emerging near Kibbutz Sufa.
This attempted infiltration was another effort by Hamas to rehabilitate its poor operational image and boost its bargaining power during the negotiations on a ceasefire. The relatively large group of terrorists entered through the tunnel that led under the fence close to Sufa, and were apparently intending a major attack with a high death toll and the abduction of soldiers and civilians. Had this plan succeeded, it would have drastically altered the face of this war.
It’s hard to blame IDF for wanting to do this.
Just because Netanyahu has hushed some hawks in his government doesn’t mean he won’t end up doing what they urged anyhow. It may simply mean he doesn’t need the pressure right now, he has quite enough on his plate as it is.
That’s quite right ...
It usually ends up that when Israel polices an Arab trouble situation, other than dealing with active terrorists they are pretty humane about it.
The problem is that every time a truce is declared only one side abides by it.
Hamas is also far from unified. I do not think it could control its wildcats if it wanted to. This is no excuse for not trying, of course.
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