As many as 80% of Israelis believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must take responsibility for the security failures exposed by the devastating Oct. 7 assault on Israeli by Hamas, a poll in the Ma'ariv newspaper showed on Friday.
I don’t think people in Israel view it as a good or bad way, just by the results.
If someone tries to sell you on less freedom, less privacy, more surveillance, and you still get attacked, then people start to wonder what was the point. Regardless of the measures taken.
Now, do they think he failed by instituting inhumane conditions on Gaza leading to them lashing out? Or he failed by not oppressing them enough?
Or failed by diverting almost all the border guards over to the West Bank to oppress the Palestinians there.
But we need to how they feel about that second part…
The official policy on Hamas was to just sort of ignore them in favor of stealing land in the West Bank.
I don’t think people in Israel view it as a good or bad way, just by the results.
If someone tries to sell you on less freedom, less privacy, more surveillance, and you still get attacked, then people start to wonder what was the point. Regardless of the measures taken.