Depart and Let Us Have Done With You, Netanyahu! | Opinion
Benjamin Netanyahu must go. Now. Before he wreaks further havoc.
Israel's prime minister has become a veritable albatross around his country's neck. And the oft-heard argument that it is unwise to change leaders in the middle of a war is utter rubbish.
Sticking with a failed political or military leader in wartime just so that said leader can continue to enjoy the perks of power is nonsensical at best and potentially disastrous.
It's worth noting that David Lloyd George replaced Herbert Asquith as Britain's prime minister in 1916, right in the middle of World War I, and France changed its prime minister four times during that same war. Both countries ended up on the winning side in that conflict.
On May 7, 1940, eight months after the outbreak of World War II, Conservative backbencher Leo Amery called for the ouster of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government. "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing," Amery declared in the House of Commons, paraphrasing Oliver Cromwell. "Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go."
This was shortly after Germany had launched its invasion of Norway, with German warships able to enter Norwegian ports unopposed. Three days later, Chamberlain was out and Winston Churchill became prime minister . . . in the middle of a war.
"Wars are won," Amery said in the same speech, "not by explanations after the event but by foresight . . . . We were told by the prime minister on 2nd May that all except a relatively small advance guard of the Expeditionary Force which was earmarked for Finland had gone elsewhere and that the ships had been taken for employment for other purposes. Even the small, inadequate nucleus that was kept in being had no transports except warships. Why was this done? For months we had been aware that the Germans had been accumulating troops and transports and practicing embarkation and disembarkation.
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New York lawyer and Jewish community activist Menachem Z. Rosensaft is General Counsel Emeritus of the World Jewish Congress after serving as the organization’s General Counsel since 2009, and its Associate Executive Vice President since 2019.
Mr. Rosensaft was born in 1948 in Bergen Belsen Displaced Person Camp.
bibi and his ultra nationalist wackos in the knesset need to be replaced.
Yes, they do the question is when will it happen.
right after they've guaranteed terrorist acts of retribution against israeli's for the next 2 centuries.
Perhaps a change will be made after the hostages are released and the Hamas surrenders. I'm sure the Israelis will figure out what to do when the time is right.
Expecting Hamas to surrender is at best a wild wish, terrorist groups don't surrender, they simply regroup and reconstitute as Hamas or with another name.
Its starting to look like neither of those things will happen.
If Netanyahu is still there, the war will never end. The only thing keeping him in power is this war.
yup.
Sadly, I tend to agree with that, JR.
The Jewish people are great and will always have my support, but, their leader is a terrorist.
Leaked reports that Israeli security knew a year in advance of the Hamas attack, but deemed it unlikely, IMO is a bullshit, Netanyahu ass covering for what was his “wag-the-dog” plan to hold power … with help from Trump & Putin.
That is certainly a possibility, Mac. I suspect that a lot more is going to come out about the report (s) in the future.
So, who would be Israel's Churchill and be a good leader? What would be the value, if any. of getting rid of Netanyahu now?
That, of course would be up to the voting public in Israel, there are a number of quailfied people. It could be someone in government or someone from the business sector. It's up to the voters.
Since he is so disliked 76% want him to resign now simply a change in leadership would give the voters someone they currently want and it could cast a different direction to the war, or not, new ideas and to stop supporting the religious right/orthodox which would change directions for Israel in the West Bank.