Four opposition figures — Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett, Avigdor Lieberman, and Yair Golan — issued a rare joint statement Tuesday, accusing Prime Minister Netanyahu of ignoring warnings before the October 7 Hamas attack and calling him unfit to lead. They demanded a state commission of inquiry.
Four opposition leaders — Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett, Avigdor Lieberman, and Yair Golan — issued a rare joint statement Tuesday, September 8, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of ignoring repeated warnings before the October 7 Hamas attack and calling for a state commission of inquiry. The statement, the first such coordinated message from these figures in a long period, asserts that "severe warnings reached him directly and he ignored them" and describes the failure as "smugness and a breach of trust." The four declared that Netanyahu and his coalition partners are "unfit to continue in office" and vowed to work "with the required coordination and responsibility" to prevent "another disaster."
The statement adds pressure on Netanyahu amid a sustained public dispute over responsibility for the October 7 failures. In recent months, as The Zioneer has reported, Bennett accused Netanyahu of running a "blood libel" campaign against security forces, Eisenkot said Netanyahu was "inventing reality" about the Iranian threat, and Netanyahu himself claimed defense officials deliberately failed to wake him on the morning of the attack. The joint statement brings together figures from across the opposition spectrum but does not appear to outline immediate legislative or political steps beyond the demand for an inquiry.
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