(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . ‘Submarine affair’ inquiry finds Netanyahu’s decisions compromised national security [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-24 Surprise!! Netanyahu's Corruption is exposed once again, and has clearly jeopardized Israel. The general public knows Bibi is corrupt. He built the far right cabinet to avoid further prosecution for his crimes. It’s one helluva situation for US Sec State Blinken and President Biden, along with our allies, to have to conduct diplomacy to stop the Israeli Extremist Cabinet’s slaughter with such self-serving criminals. Excellent reporting by SAM SOKOL and ELANA KIRSH. www.timesofisrael.com/… Key excerpts: ”A state commission of inquiry investigating the so-called submarine affair on Monday sent warning notices to five individuals it believes may be negatively impacted by the probe, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former naval commander Admiral Ram Rothberg, in order to allow them to submit additional testimony and view evidence relating to their conduct. Netanyahu, the commission charged, took decisions that endangered national security and harmed Israel’s foreign relations.” File – Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside a court hearing on the submarine affair, outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on January 25, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90) ”According to an 11-page statement released by the commission on Monday, during his term as prime minister between 2009 and 2016, Netanyahu made decisions with “significant implications for security” without an orderly decision-making process, bypassed his own government in order to come to agreements with Germany on a series of political, security and economic issues, and made defense purchases “without orderly staff work [while] deviating from the operational needs established by the government. Netanyahu additionally excluded relevant security bodies from the decision-making process when dealing with “sensitive political-security questions,” avoided documenting meetings, and “created parallel and conflicting channels of action, thereby endangering national security and harming Israel’s foreign relations,” the commission stated in its decision.” “… Opposition Leader Yair Lapid charged that Netanyahu is “a danger to Israel’s security.” “So it was with the case of the submarines, so it was with the Mount Meron disaster, so it was regarding all of the conduct that led to and caused the October 7 massacre,” he said. Earlier this year, a state commission of inquiry named Netanyahu as one of a number of officials responsible for the 2021 Meron disaster, in which 45 people were killed in a crush at the hilltop gravesite of a second-century sage in northern Israel. The inquest did not propose sanctions for Netanyahu due to his position, but said it was reasonable to assume that the prime minister had been warned that the site was dangerous.” I dearly wish I could offer something positive. Until general elections happen the only thing we can hope for is stemming the worst impulses of those in power. The evil continues, against civilians throughout Israel and it neighbors. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/24/2248420/-Submarine-affair-inquiry-finds-Netanyahu-s-decisions-compromised-national-security?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/