Many Top Israelis Agree That Netanyahu’s ‘Gutless’

By Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 31.10.14

A half-dozen variations of “no guts” were used by top former and current military officials to describe Bibi last winter.

...“Bibi doesn’t have any balls,” echoed Gilead Sher, another top former soldier and defense official, in his Tel Aviv office last February. A former tank brigade commander who worked on the Oslo peace negotiations under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and was chief of staff to Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Sher called Netanyahu “very smart. He understands the situation.” But he just can’t break with the religious parties propelling the settlements. The Hamas rocket campaign, meanwhile, has only bolstered his hardline stance.

“Israel’s international isolation deepens,” Sher wrote in an op-ed last week, “and calls for boycotts increase, yet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered no concrete diplomatic strategy at the United Nations last month, nor has he since.”...


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