Netanyahu betrayed by Likud in wartime

[Israeli]

Summary:
His own coalition members and others are publicly criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for approving the cease-fire, with Deputy Defense Minister Danny Dannon leading the assault, forcing the premier to fire him

There has never been anything like this in the history of the Likud Party. Never before has a party head — and a prime minister, no less — become a punching bag in the middle of a military operation, just for the sake of immediate political points. If anyone wanted further proof that the very DNA of the Likud has changed and that the settlers and other groups from the far right are now setting the tone, they got it in the hours immediately following the Cabinet’s decision to accept the cease-fire.

This analysis is a good description of the current state of the ruling party. Its senior members are feuding among themselves. The leader who led them to the government has become their punching bag and is being portrayed as a liability. It is a party in which the deputy minister of defense humiliates the prime minister on every available television channel. Danon may yet manage to climb to the uppermost echelons of the Likud, thanks to support from the far right, which has taken over the party, but if the current situation within the party continues, he could find himself as a head of a party that has crashed and burned.

Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/07/netanyahu-danny-danon-likud-party-rebellion-operation-gaza.html#ixzz37hjSZ7bC

[regnaD kciN]

1. I hate to have to point it out...

...but Likud always has been a far-right party.

[Israeli]

2. Nope ...

It has always been a Right wing party .

Today it is a Right wing party about to be overtaken by the far Right .

[bemildred]

3. So I guess we can tell how it's going, eh?

Reminds me of the disputes among our Neocons over the results of their manic adventures. Did you know Cheney is still out there trying to say Iraq is not his fault, it was fine when he was done with it?

[Israeli]

5. Its going this way ....

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.605528

[bemildred]

7. Yes.

That's kind of where we are here too.

[geek tragedy]

4. Likud is at its core Irgun. They've tried to put on a dog and pony

show to win elections, but at their core they've always been about establishing an apartheid state by annexing the West Bank.

[Israeli]

6. there is an old saying geek tragedy....

Don't try to teach your Grandma how to suck eggs

My father was at Kfar Vitkin under Rabin's command :

ref : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altalena_Affair

I know exactly who and what the Likud and Bibi represent .

[King_David]

8. Great answer ..