Analysis |
Clashes between Defense Minister Israel Katz and senior officials from the defense establishment are merely part of a plan, the ultimate goal of which is the dismissal the chief of staff and Shin Bet director – allowing the prime minister to place full responsibility for the October 7 massacre on them and whitewash his own role
This has been a week of escalation. But not in the Gaza Strip, though soldiers continue to die there in the name of a goal that hasn’t been clear for a long time; not in Lebanon, where Israel is threatening to remain beyond the 60 days agreed on in the cease-fire deal; and not even in Iran, despite headlines about increasingly close American-Israeli coordination on the possibility of attacking its nuclear facilities.