At least seven senior Israeli officials have publicly blamed the state for its failure to protect its citizens, including the IDF Chief of Staff, the Defense Minister, the head of the Shin Bet, and the head of the National Security Council.
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19 days after Hamas launched the war on October 7, many Israelis believe that Hamas needs to be overthrown, but they have no confidence that their own government can oversee such a process.
So far, 1,400 people have been killed in Israel while 224 have been abducted by Hamas, The Times of Israel reports. Israel is also preparing for a ground attack in Gaza, while there is a possibility of an escalation of the war on the northern border.
Israelis have expressed concern against their government, citing disastrous failures by both the government and security chiefs. He believes that the current system has failed to stop Hamas’ attacks and has also failed to respond promptly to a crisis that has left unarmed civilians to fend for themselves.
Israelis also believe that the slow reserve call-up process has exposed shocking deficiencies in basic military equipment and ultimately led to the government’s sluggish civilian response in support of those displaced by the fighting. These public sentiments are supported by new data showing that Israelis’ trust in the government is at a 20-year low of 18 percent.
In a survey conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute after the Hamas attack, only 20.5 percent of Jewish Israelis and 7.5 percent of Arab Israelis said they had confidence in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, the Times of Israel reported. (In June, turnout for these populations was 28 percent and 18 percent, respectively.)
Conversely, despite the Israeli military’s failure, confidence in security forces and the media has increased. Jewish Israelis’ confidence in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) increased by 2.5 percent to 87 percent, and Arab Israelis’ confidence similarly increased by 2 percent to 23 percent.
At least seven senior Israeli officials have publicly blamed the state for its failure to protect its citizens, including the IDF Chief of Staff, the Defense Minister, the head of the Shin Bet, and the head of the National Security Council. The report says that for many, the government has compounded its failure on October 7 by responding inadequately.
On Sunday, the mayor of Netivot, a traditional stronghold for Netanyahu’s Likud party, sent a letter to Netanyahu accusing the government of abandoning his municipality. It is the latest incident in a growing chorus of criticism that has also fractured Likud’s famously loyal base. It took Netanyahu a week to visit the attacked communities for the first time and eight days to meet the families of those held hostage by Hamas.
Despite four people being released by Hamas in recent days, the process of negotiating their release is still not well known, The Times of Israel reports. Israeli government involvement in the released hostages is said to be minimal.
The Netanyahu government has also been heavily criticized for its handling of the hostage crisis, and relatives have complained that they have had no contact with government representatives.
In the early days of the attack, civil society and private individuals stepped into the void, conducting open-source and cellphone-based tracking with the hope of finding clues to the current or last-known whereabouts of missing family members.
With reports about the IDF lacking equipment to protect its reservists, Israelis and Diaspora Jews are filling the gap by funneling money to army units, bulletproof vests and other essential supplies, The Times of Israel reports. are doing.
Determined to return to power, and after dismantling the right-wing political coalition during Israel’s five election cycles in four years, Netanyahu combined his right-wing Likud party with two far-right and two ultra-Orthodox allies. took.
Likud and its allies have called themselves natural allies, and have talked about their union as an ideologically complete right-wing government. But it was the most radical coalition Netanyahu has led in his 16 years at Israel’s top job and to manage it, he established himself as the decision-making gatekeeper at the top of committees and appointments.
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