Netanyahu Wants Ministers To Take Polygraph Test: Report (image@ netanyahu)
While Benjamin Netanyahu desperately seek to make up for the “unprecedented” blow Israel received from Hamas on October 7th, by powdering down Gaza infrastructures and committing indiscriminate genocidal bombing on civilians which has claimed lives of more than 22,000 Palestinians within 90 days, nothing seems to be enough.
In a poll conducted by Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, 64 percent of the Israelis believe that Netanyahu’s performance in Gaza war has not been good. A second poll also found 46 percent of the Israeli believe Benny Gantz, former Defence Minister and National Unity Party leader to be most suitable to lead the government. Only 25 percent voted in favour of Netanyahu. The poll suggested that, the National Unit Party may win 33 seats, when compared to Netanyahu’s Likud party, which according to the poll, may only gain 20 seats, if elections were held.
Three ministers form the former Defence Minister’s party, including Benny Gantz himself boycott the Israeli government ministers meeting, a high-level security cabinet session for the discussion of future Gaza. Though National Unity Party is not a part of Netanyahu’s coalition, they are part of the emergency government in wartime. Benny Gantz also came in support of Israeli army’s chief of staff who demanded a probe into the military’s security failure on October 7th, when he was berated in the security cabinet by members of right-wing camp.
After the boycott call, Netanyahu said he wants his ministers and others in the top meetings to undergo polygraph tests, as he believed a “a plague of leaks” taking on over his office. He said, “everyone who sits in cabinet and security discussions” should do the tests and things “cannot go on as they have so far”. He demanded a law to be drafted to make this happen.
There are also a lot infightings in the Israeli government, with some disagreeing with those advocating for the voluntary migration of the Palestinians from Gaza, and building of illegal settlements after they leave.
An Israeli politician, Ofer Cassif, a Knesset (the unicameral parliament of Israel and supreme authority) member, who represents the far-left, Arab majority coalition named as Hadash, expressed his support for the hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), assessing South Africa’s accusation of genocide against Israel.
On his X (formerly twitter), he said, his constitutional duty is to Israeli and society and not to the government “whose members and its coalition are calling for ethnic cleansing and even actual genocide”. He said, “I will not give up the fight for our existence as a moral society. This is the true patriotism – no revenge wars and calls for extermination, no unnecessary bloodshed, and no sacrifice of kidnapped citizens and soldiers in false wars.” He was expelled from Israeli Parliament in October after he compared Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan for Gaza with Nazis’ “Final Solution” against Europe’s Jews.
חובתי החוקתית היא לחברה הישראלית ולכלל היושבים בה, לא לממשלה שחברים בה ובקואליציה שלה קוראים לטיהור אתני ואף לרצח עם ממש. הם אלה שפוגעים במדינה ובעם, הם אלה שהובילו לפנייה של דרום אפריקה להאג, לא אני וחבריי.
וכאשר הממשלה פועלת נגד החברה, המדינה ואזרחיה, קל וחומר כאשר היא מקריבה… pic.twitter.com/POosMoQQWN
— Ofer Cassif עופר כסיף عوفر كسيف (@ofercass) January 7, 2024
Meanwhile, dozens of Israelis held protest outside Israeli parliament building calling for the new election and resignation of the current government.
תנועת משנים כיוון וקואליציית בחירות_עכשיו חוסמים את הכניסה לכנסת בדרישה לבחירות עכשיו#בחירות_עכשיו pic.twitter.com/umWeSHCMxC
— 🇮🇱Bar🇮🇱 (כבר לא) מחכה ל 6 אחרי המלחמה (@barakdor) January 8, 2024
