the bottom line is that netanyahu in my opinion is a military coward plain and simple. he is fearful of launching a comprehensive decisive operation. and he unlike some has no idea or feel for what an attack might look like. He is a man of words and talks a good game. so yaya sinwar is running circles around him.
lieberman who is attacking bibi non-stop had his chance at defense and while he did some good things, he was mostly talk like bibi.
gantz did poorly in protective edge and is highly unlikely to undertake any decisive operation in contradiction to gabi ashkenazi who says he would hit hamas where it hurts. that is unlikely because gantz is a laid back passive general. in fact he wants to give up land to buy peace.
so what is left is for you Israeli shmucks to give Bennett a chance. shapira says he was right on protective edge tunnels and that bibi gantz and yaalon were wrong( and by implication lapid who supported gantz) and deserved heavy criticism.
vote Bennett 20 seats and he will be the new defense minister in bibi's govt.don't be taken by the media spin.
as for ehud barak, he was terrible as defense minister, wrong about many things and ineffectual, damn ineffectual.
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