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Vivian Bercovici: No more plausible deniability for Netanyahu

It's been made clear to him in a letter that an immediate infusion of troops are needed, otherwise the IDF will "collapse into itself"

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Last Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strode into the Knesset plenum and took his seat. Befitting the leader, his spot is front row centre in a horseshoe seating arrangement. To his right sat his Minister of Justice and the architect of the proposed “judicial reform” that ignited civil unrest and fury throughout Israel in the nine months preceding October 7.

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The division stoked by the coalition government’s extreme plans — which many believed would kneecap liberal democracy — escalated throughout 2023. After October 7, though, the nation was in crisis and the judicial reform plans were shelved indefinitely, as was the intention to legally exempt the ultra-orthodox from serving in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).

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On one occasion in late July 2023, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi was desperate for a meeting with the prime minister. He had been rebuffed repeatedly. So he sat outside the Prime Minister’s Jerusalem office waiting for an audience. Netanyahu refused to meet with him. He likely surmised that Halevi was determined to warn him, yet again, that the increasingly violent civil unrest caused by the judicial reform legislative........

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