Netanyahu Fires Israel’s Defense Minister, Yoav Gallan

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1. Gallant*

2. National politics not particularly geopolitics

3. In mid 2023, Bibi tried to fire Gallant and replace him with a loyalist crony, causing mass demonstrations that scuttled his attempt to take over the judiciary. (He wanted to take over the judiciary bc they were investigating him for blatant corruption.) Now, Mr. “We can’t change the prime minister during a war” fired his defense minister during a war, replacing him with…a loyalist crony. Gallant was a general, his replacement is a career politician. On top of that, Gallant was outspoken in supporting Palestinian control in Gaza after the war, while allegedly Bibi wants either Israeli control and possibly land annexation in north Gaza.

   Are these the actions of a democratic state or of a cronyist Turkey/Hungary/Peronist Argentina?

4. Im out of the loop, what was their biggest disagreement on the current war? Is it a struggle of allegiance or much more than that?

5. Very fascinating as to why this has happened today of all days. The world is distracted with the US election, perfect time to act boldly. I can’t speak for everyone, especially Israeli’s, but removing an actual general from the ministerial position and replacing them with a loyalist is not only a terrible look, but a terrible thing. Very disappointing.

6. Bad look tbh

7. Israel usually tends to do something when the US is preoccupied.

8. Clever – The Iranians were threatening to attack Israel any day now – this “apparent crisis” puts them in a no-win situation.
   If they launch an attack, it unifies the country around Netanyahu again.
   If they don’t they come off looking like chumps.

9. Just a small note to all the people who think that’s happening because of some disagreements related to the ongoing conflict:
   The main disagreement between them is not about the war itself, it happened mainly because Gallant wanted to force fitting ultra Orthodox to join the IDF while bibi didn’t (because he wanted to please his ultra Orthodox coalition members).
   Once gallant took it a step further and started to send recruitment orders in the mail, bibi preferred essentially to fire him instead of making his coalition crumble and eventually go to elections.

10. Netanyahu wants to stretch this crisis as long as he can. Biden called him out for it too.

11. These have teed off big protests in Israel. It was rumored he was going to can their military and CIA equivalent head as well, but now says it was all just a terrible rumor.

    We’re getting into coup territory here. This is not normal and it’s timing is incredibly suspect.

12. Netanyahu should have fired him a long time ago. Galant was against Israel entering Lebanon. Considering the amount of tunnels that were dug from Lebanon into Israel’s territory by Hezbollah, there was no choice but to enter Lebanon because returning Israelis back to their homes in the north without cleaning up those tunnels meant another October 7th could happen to these ppl. The IDF knew about it and still Galant didn’t want to enter.

13. Netanyahu fired the man who will eventually be his successor.

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