Five days ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to fire his defense minister set off a wave of spontaneous mass protests and a general strike that threatened to paralyze the country, forcing the Israeli leader to suspend his...
But Netanyahu never even sent Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant a formal termination letter, a spokesperson for Netanyahu said. As of Friday, Gallant - whose criticism of Netanyahu’s planned judicial changes led to his dismissal - was still on the job. Gallant’s aides said it was business-as-usual at the Defense Ministry.
“We have a duty to calm the spirits in Israeli society and maintain an inclusive and unifying discourse,” Gallant said at the holiday toast. On the one hand, Netanyahu must please his far-right and religiously conservative coalition partners - supporters of the judicial overhaul - who vaulted him to power even as he stands trial.
“Netanyahu has extremists surrounding him and they want to see blood, they want to see Gallant removed,” said Gayil Talshir, a political scientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Officially firing and replacing him could trigger backlash not only from tens of thousands of Israeli protesters taking to the streets weekly and from Israel’s already unnerved military officials, but also from the Biden administration, she said.
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