Former member of the war cabinet MK Gadi Eisenkot called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to replace Mossad chief Dedi Barnea, who is serving as the head of the negotiations team for a hostage release deal, and replace him with someone who understands the Arab mentality.
In an interview with Ynet, Eisenkot said: “Dedi is an excellent person but he doesn’t understand the Arab mentality,” adding that after ten months of negotiations, Barnea “has not yet delivered the goods.” Eisenkot also feels that Barnea, as the head of the Mossad, must utilize all of his time to focus on the Iranian threat. “Barnea and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar need to deal with their own challenges – and they are big enough,” he said.
Eisenkot noted that he and the chairman of his party, Benny Gantz, already told Netanyahu these views six months ago, when they were members of the war cabinet – “more than once.”
In an interview with Army Radio on Thursday morning, Eisenkot said that all IDF commanders who were responsible for the October 7 debacle should resign as soon as there is a lull in the war, without waiting for Netanyahu’s resignation.
“These are excellent people who are committed to the State of Israel, but they are responsible for the greatest failure of the State since its establishment,” he said. “Therefore, everyone from the level of the division commander to the prime minister should resign.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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The last time I checked, responsibility begins and ends at the top with the commander-in-chief. For 10 months, Netanyahu has blamed everyone but himself for the Simchas Torah massacre and keeps saying “now is not the time to demand accountability. He continues to sabotage efforts to bring the declining number of living hostages home and continue operations in Gaza so as to defer the inevitable day of political reckoning.
Firing those military officers who failed the nation on October 7th will be necessary but lets start at the TOP.
Very misleading headline. From the headline it sounds like he doesn’t speak Arabic. Which means he needs a translator. That would probably be the dumbest thing Netanyahu can do. However that’s not the case. He speaks Arabic. He just doesn’t “understand the Arab mentality”. A very subjective statement indeed
The headline seems like a mistake in translation, which should have been avoided is it would be confirmed to match the story. The original was probably Aravi, which simply means “Arabic” but not as in the language but as in the culture/mindset.
All IDF commanders who were responsible for the October 7 debacle should resign AND GET PUNISHED!!!
time to come to together and not apart. time to remove the obstacles that are the issue….Make Israel a JEWISH STATE period…stop the nonsense….5784….
The headline is misleading, it’s just more playing politics from eizinkot, it’s more of the accusations on bibi for the last many years, every time a different excuse. It’s actually the reason bibi doesnt resign because the left that want power are the ones that don’t understand arabic. Yhe hostage deal is a surrender to chmas to restart arming, which us a danger to the general public. Bibi is trying to do it responsibly which is most probably daas Torah. I don’t know who the commentator gadolhadora is, but he is on the side of the left which is against the Torah, so I’m asking him to please not use that username as his daas is Hrpach Daas Torah.
the reference to netanyahu’s resignation reveals the true, political nature of the comment. army officers who resign or are imprisoned, can be replaced at the stroke of a pen, but a new government takes more than a few thousand demonstrators in the street. unfortunately for the other politicians eyeing the pm’s job, holding an election in the middle of a war is a very, very bad idea, even in israel.
what is the point in resigning?
GHD, Netanyahu is NOT the commander in chief of the IDF. There is nothing he can do about its deficiencies, and therefore there is no reason for him to resign when it fails.