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Bibi At War
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|August 26, 2024
THE EMBATTLED PREMIER ON GAZA, IRAN, AND ISRAEL'S PERILOUS FUTURE
For the past 10 months, Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to apologize for leaving Israel vulnerable to Hamas' Oct. 7 terrorist attack.
After the deaths of 1,200 people and the abduction of hundreds more, a traumatized Israeli public heard abject admissions of responsibility from the heads of the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet, the country's domestic security service, but none from Netanyahu, who had been Prime Minister for almost a year when the attack happened, and had presided over a more than 10-year strategy of tacit acceptance of Hamas rule in Gaza. His only apology was for a social media post blaming his own security chiefs for failing to foil the assault. So, early in a 66-minute conversation with TIME on Aug. 4 in the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, the question is, Would he make an apology?
"Apologize?" he asks back. "Of course, of course. I am sorry, deeply, that something like this happened. And you always look back and you say, Could we have done things that would have prevented it?"
For Netanyahu, who first occupied the dowdy Kaplan Street offices in 1996, it's a fraught question. Through a combination of electoral vicissitudes, sweeping regional changes, and his own political gifts, his almost 17-year cumulative tenure is longer than that of anyone else who has led Israel, a country only two years older than he is. Over that span, Netanyahu's political endurance has been built around one consistent argument: that he's the only leader who can ensure Israel's safety.
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