THE CURRENT → KNESSET CHANNEL Issue 1003 · March 13, 2024

Hoping for a Victory Picture

Netanyahu fearshe’ll be remembered as the leader who presided over the Jewish People’s worst massacre since the Holocaust

Hoping for a Victory Picture

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Accountability is like quicksand — the harder you resist it, the faster you sink.

More than a week has gone by since the state commission of inquiry on the Meron disaster implicated Binyamin Netanyahu — among others — for the 2021 disaster.

Likud’s petulant response, rejecting the commission’s findings and portraying committee member Shlomo Yanai as a tool of Yair Lapid, proved more convincingly than any of the committee’s witnesses that someone in the prime minister’s office has lost it.

While that statement was released in response to the Meron commission’s conclusions, its real target was the future commission of inquiry that will one day be formed to investigate the State of Israel’s single greatest security failure. Imbued with a relentless sense of history, Netanyahu fears that despite his decades of service as prime minister and statesman, he’ll be remembered as the leader who presided over the Jewish People’s worst massacre since the Holocaust.

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