Netanyahu’s governments go through dizzying highs and devastating lows. After a rough stretch, he’s on the upswing
“We’re lucky the Houthi government isn’t as bloated as ours — otherwise it would have been less of an achievement,” a cabinet minister cynically observed to me, referring to last Thursday’s precise decapitation airstrike by the Israeli Air Force in Sanaa, Yemen.
The strike took out much of the Houthi leadership, including the prime minister, the director of the political bureau, the cabinet secretary, the prime minister’s chief of staff, and the ministers of foreign affairs, justice, economy and trade, agriculture, and public relations.
In all, only four members of the Houthi cabinet survived the strike. Then on Shabbos, another IAF airstrike in Gaza took out Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida.
“We’re waiting for the kill confirmation on the Abu Obeida strike, but I notice that Hamas hasn’t put out a statement yet,” Netanyahu quipped at the beginning of this week’s cabinet meeting. “Probably because there’s no one left to release it.”
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