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To: Les H who wrote (43572)	9/16/2024 4:24:10 PM
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Netanyahu, don’t fire Gallant: The first time was tragedy, the second could be worse Booting the defense minister amid Israel’s gravest crisis, with conflict on multiple fronts, is reckless and dangerous. It would delight Israel’s enemies, deepen division at home By David Horovitz Today, 10:10 pm Netanyahu’s endlessly bitter relationship with Gallant is public knowledge. He fired the defense minister in March 2023, after Gallant presciently warned the nation that the coalition’s bid to destroy judicial independence was weakening Israel and emboldening its enemies — and reinstated him two weeks later, after a vast public outcry. He publicly took Gallant to task two weeks ago for daring to denounce the cabinet’s decision to insist on maintaining an IDF presence along the Gaza-Egypt border, even at the potential cost of torpedoing a deal for the release of the hostages still held by Hamas, almost a year after the terrorists’ invasion and slaughter in southern Israel. The two are said to have been at odds in recent days, too, over Netanyahu’s reported decision that the time has come for a major military operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon. According to some accounts, however, Netanyahu’s prime and urgent motivation for dumping his defense minister is Gallant’s abiding refusal to advance legislation that would continue to exclude most ultra-Orthodox men from military service. Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox coalition partners have reportedly told him that they will bring down his coalition if the legislation is not pushed through, while Sa’ar would not oppose it. Whatever the mix of explanations, the move would be unforgivably dangerous. Senior sources in a US administration that broadly trusts Gallant and despises Netanyahu, and on whose military and diplomatic support Israel depends, were quoted on Monday night as calling it an act of madness. And they are right. timesofisrael.com