#Yair Lapid

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‼️🇵🇸🇮🇱 “Soldiers are being killed every day (…) the cabinet is disassembled and non-functional” Words from Former Israeli prime minister on the decline of the Israeli army and government

[Plain text: “Soldiers are being killed every day (…) the cabinet is disassembled and non-functional” Words from Former Israeli prime minister on the decline of the Israeli army and government ]

🔸 Source Al Jazeera

🔹 Under the cut is a small compilation of links: Arguments in the government, rage of Israeli civilians, nosedive in country’s reputation and loss of control in the army

⬇️ Just a glimpse into the fall of Israel’s reputation: possible ICJ arrest warrants.

⬇️ Israel’s war cabinet minister threatens to quit cabinet.

⬇️ Tens of thousands in protests in Israel for an end to the war and a hostage deal, as well as the fall of the current government.

⬇️ “We were defeated. Total defeat.” An article by local Israeli media, beginnings of April.

⬇️ Ben Gvir, Israel’s security minister, reportedly attacked by Israeli settlers

⬇️ Rifts in Israeli war cabinet

⬇️ Friendly fire amongst Israeli soldiers: around 1 in 5 casualties in the army are friendly fire or accidents

⬇️ IDF loses control over its units

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Only in Israel.

While taking shelter in a stairwell during a Hamas rocket attack on Tel Aviv, opposition leader Yair Lapid explains (via a translator) to the visiting president of the French Senate why Europe must stop sending money to the Palestinians.

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“The majority of the 12,000 dead Palestinians were terrorists. […] Good riddance."

- Yair Lapid, Member of the Israeli Knesset

(Yesh Atid) 22/10/2023

The majority are innocent civilians- women, babies, and children. More than 9,000 children were barbarically slaughtered by the IDF. Thousands of mothers, elderly, fathers, journalists and medical staff have been massacred. More than 7,000 people remain unaccounted for under the rubble.

Sources: https://news.sky.com/video/israel-hamas-war-we-are-fighting-for-our-lives-israels-opposition-leader-12990378

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Bethan McKernan at The Guardian:

The chief prosecutor of the international criminal court has said he is seeking arrest warrants for senior Hamas and Israeli officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant. Karim Khan said his office had applied to the world court’s pre-trial chamber for arrest warrants for the military and political leaders on both sides for crimes committed during Hamas’s 7 October attack and the ensuing war in Gaza.

He named Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas chief in Gaza, and Mohammed Deif, the commander of its military wing, considered to be the masterminds of the 7 October assault, as well as Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the group’s political bureau, who is based in Qatar, as wanted for crimes of extermination, murder, hostage-taking, rape, sexual assault and torture. In an extraordinary rebuke of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and its conduct in the war in Gaza, Netanyahu and Gallant are accused of extermination, causing starvation as a method of war, the denial of humanitarian relief supplies and deliberately targeting civilians. Monday’s statement notably does not include any Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officials, such as its chief of staff, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi, focusing instead on political decision-making. Khan, the British ICC prosecutor, must request the warrants for the Hamas and Israeli suspects from a pre-trial panel of three judges, who take on average two months to consider the evidence and determine if the proceedings can move forward. The ICC has previously issued warrants for Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, the Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and the former president of Sudan Omar al-Bashir, but no leader of a “western-style” democracy has ever been issued a warrant.

While there is no imminent likelihood of prosecution, since Israel is not a member of the court, ICC warrants could put Israeli officials at risk of arrest abroad, further deepening the country’s growing international isolation over its conduct in the war in Gaza. The move also presents fresh challenges for Israel’s western allies, who are already struggling to reconcile support for the Jewish state with growing evidence of war crimes in the seven-month-old conflict and respect for the post-second world war rules-based order. Netanyahu described the prosecutor’s accusations against him as a “disgrace”, saying: “I reject with disgust The Hague prosecutor’s comparison between democratic Israel and the mass murderers of Hamas. “With what audacity do you dare compare the monsters of Hamas to the soldiers of the IDF, the most moral army in the world?” Joe Biden, the US president, described the move as “outrageous” in a statement, adding: “Whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence – none – between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security.”

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Condemnation of Khan’s decision from across the Israeli political spectrum was swift. The Israeli opposition leader, Yair Lapid, called the ICC’s actions a “disaster”. Benny Gantz, a former military chief and member of Israel’s war cabinet alongside Netanyahu and Gallant, criticised the ICC’s announcement, saying Israel fought with “one of the strictest” moral codes and had a “robust judiciary capable of investigating itself”. Khan suggested heavily in his statement that Israel’s judicial system “shields suspects”. Last year’s conviction rate for Palestinians tried in Israeli military courts was 96%, while fewer than 1% of complaints against Israeli soldiers ended in a conviction, according to the US Department of State’s annual human rights report.

Hamas, too, was critical of Khan’s announcement. The ICC prosecutor’s decision “equates the victim with the executioner”, the senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters. Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz described the chief prosecutor’s decision as “a historic disgrace” that would be “remembered forever”. The US Republican party is all but certain to pursue sanctions against members of the ICC as a result of Khan’s announcement; a group of a dozen Republican senators wrote a letter earlier this month warning his office: “Target Israel and we will target you.” Sanctions were levied by the Trump administration over the court’s investigations into Israel and US actions in Afghanistan, but later reversed by Joe Biden. In 2021, Khan decided to drop the US from the ICC’s Afghanistan file.

ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan is seeking arrest warrants for senior Israel Apartheid State and Hamas officials, such as Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Gaza’s Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

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I may be wrong, but I suspect were Lapid or Gantz or Bennett or whoever PM since 10/7/23 there probably would have been an invasion of Gaza (and also probably Lebanon) but

* at some point the IDF would have withdrawn entirely or almost entirely from Gaza (although Hamas intransigence quite possibly would have caused a re-invasion)

* the PM would have been willing to be dragged into a day after plan by making assurances to the PA/Saudi Arabia/UAE about Palestinian self-determination in Gaza (and possibly also the WB)

I dunno, it’s quite possible I’m just having wishful thinking about a situation that doesn’t exist.

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Yair Lapid

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It won't matter in the end when Apartheid Israel doesn't exist anymore.

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The newest edition of the Cutting Through Newsletter is out. Although the far-right governing coalition in #israel is getting the attention, the opposition is dominated by the Israeli right as well. That’s why there’s little hope of any good coming out of the current crisis. We need to recognize what Israel is: a right-wing country, not just one that happens at this moment to have a right-wing…

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