In a fiery
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speech to the Knesset plenum on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed what he said were his government’s "tremendous achievements" in the war in Gazoo
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that "changed the face of the Middle East" and that "broke the stranglehold of the Iranian axis."
Reeling off a list of accomplishments, including the liquidation of senior Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...leaders, Netanyahu also announced for the first time that the IDF had successfully eliminated Muhammad Sinwar, a key Hamas leader and the brother of slain Hamas leader in Gaza and October 7 architect Yahya Sinwar.
The prime minister rejected allegations that he had given up on efforts to release the remaining 58 hostages in Gaza, and took credit for having secured the release of 197 hostages, "148 of whom are alive." He contended that only military pressure had brought about their release.
Netanyahu also claimed that if the government had listened to the opposition, none of the achievements would have been obtained.
Netanyahu made his speech in the Knesset plenum after the opposition secured 40 votes to require the prime minister to be present at a debate on the topic of "The total failure of the government in achieving the war aims — returning the hostages and destroying Hamas."
Netanyahu tore into the opposition parties from the plenum podium and said they were "disconnected from reality" in failing to see the government’s achievements.
"Have you fallen on your heads? Are you on planet Earth? ... In Israel’s wars there have never been so many achievements on so many fronts," averred the prime minister.
"We repelled the terrorists, eliminated Deif, Haniyeh, Yahya Sinwar and Muhammad Sinwar. We cut off the supply of weapons to Hamas, returned about 90 percent of the residents of the Gaza border region to their homes, and we are making a dramatic change in the Gaza Strip."
The premier argued that Israel’s military campaign had also "changed the face of the Middle East" and "broken the strangleholds of the Iranian axis," describing these achievements as "the total opposite" of the failure claimed by his opponents.
Beyond accusing the government and Netanyahu of shirking responsibility for the disaster of October 7 itself, critics say the leadership has failed to steer the war in a clear direction with obtainable goals, dragging out the campaign and refusing to build an alternative to Hamas in Gaza while leaving Jerusalem increasingly isolated globally.
Netanyahu described claims he had given up on efforts to bring about the release of the remaining hostages as "lies," and maintained that the government was still committed to that goal.
"Every hostage means the world to me. I am working to return all our hostages, the living and the dead," he said.
The prime minister also argued that most of the 251 hostages taken on October 7 would not have returned if the government had listened to opposition parties, claiming that they would have stopped the war and eased the military pressure on Hamas.
"Hamas would have fortified its power in Gaza... We would have had more kidnappings, more rape, more massacres, more Hamas on the fences," argued Netanyahu, and said that the "total victory" he envisioned was the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip and the exile of Hamas’s remaining leaders.
"We achieved all the achievements because we didn’t listen to you," Netanyahu said.
"We withstood pressures at home and abroad and stuck to the goal of destroying Hamas’s military and governmental capabilities and returning the hostages. The majority of the people support us," he asserted, claiming that polls showing otherwise are deliberately skewed.
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