{"id":36299,"date":"2023-10-26T18:03:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T18:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/business\/israels-war-cabinet-the-men-planning-next-move-against-hamas\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T18:03:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T18:03:44","slug":"israels-war-cabinet-the-men-planning-next-move-against-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/?p=36299","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s war cabinet: the men planning next move against Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Five men will play a key role in determining the course of Israel\u2019s war with Hamas: they are the war cabinet set up by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to oversee what is likely to be the biggest military operation the country has embarked on in years.<\/p>\n

Put together after Hamas launched the deadliest ever attack on Israel, the war cabinet \u2014 set up in a deal that brought Netanyahu\u2019s erstwhile rival Benny Gantz into a unity government \u2014 now faces the pivotal decision of how to manage the ground invasion of Gaza that Netanyahu has promised as part of a drive to destroy Hamas and end its rule in the enclave.<\/p>\n

The narrow war cabinet consists of three men: Netanyahu, Gantz and defence minister Yoav Gallant. They are joined by two \u201cobservers\u201d: Ron Dermer, Netanyahu\u2019s closest political ally and minister of strategic affairs, and Gadi Eisenkot, an ally of Gantz and former chief of staff of Israel\u2019s military.<\/p>\n

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Members<\/h2>\n

Benjamin Netanyahu<\/h3>\n
<\/source>\"Benjamin<\/picture><\/figure>\n

Israeli premier and Likud leader Netanyahu famously pledged to topple Hamas\u2019 rule over Gaza in 2009. But despite leading the country for most of the intervening 14 years and positioning himself as Israel\u2019s \u201cMr Security\u201d, the former commando in the elite Sayeret Matkal reconnaissance unit never tried to do so.<\/p>\n

People who have worked with the 74-year-old say the contrast between his bombastic rhetoric and far more cautious actions is typical of his approach. Although Netanyahu authorised a limited ground operation in Gaza in 2014, he has never ordered anything on the scale or complexity of the ground operation for which Israel\u2019s military is currently preparing.<\/p>\n

\u201cNetanyahu zigzags, that\u2019s his reputation,\u201d said one former official. \u201cHe talks big. But the action [that follows] is far from big.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamas\u2019 devastating October 7 assault on Israel has made the sort of ground operation Netanyahu has shied away from in the past seemingly inevitable. But nearly three weeks on, he has yet to give the green light \u2014 to the frustration of hardliners in his rightwing government.<\/p>\n

Yoav Gallant<\/h3>\n
<\/source>\"Yoav<\/picture><\/figure>\n

A former head of Israel\u2019s Southern Command and a key player in the war against Hamas in 2008-09, the minister of defence is regarded as one of the more hawkish members of the war cabinet.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of Hamas\u2019 October 7 assault, he pledged that Israel\u2019s response would \u201cchange reality on the ground in Gaza for the next 50 years\u201d. \u201cFifteen years ago, as head of the Southern Command, I came close to \u2018breaking the neck\u2019 of Hamas. I was stopped by the political echelon,\u201d he said. \u201cThis phenomenon will not continue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gallant\u2019s gung-ho style is at odds with Netanyahu\u2019s more cautious approach. The two were forced to issue a statement this week denying that they disagreed over how to run the war, after media reports that the delay in launching a ground offensive was causing friction between them.<\/p>\n

This has not been not their first clash. In March, Netanyahu sacked Gallant after he warned that a controversial judicial overhaul pushed by the government risked damaging the military. Netanyahu grudgingly reversed the sacking after mass protests in the wake of the announcement.<\/p>\n

Benny Gantz<\/h3>\n
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A former paratrooper who held a host of senior positions in Israel\u2019s military and served as chief of staff during the 2014 war with Hamas, Gantz was one of Netanyahu\u2019s main opponents until Hamas\u2019 assault upended Israeli politics. <\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the attack, Gantz \u2014 who leads one of Israel\u2019s main opposition groupings, National Unity \u2014 agreed to form a unity government and join the war cabinet. <\/p>\n

But he and his ally Gadi Eisenkot insisted on establishing a clear plan for how Israeli forces would leave Gaza after the war and what governance structure would replace Hamas, something Israeli planners are still scrambling to work out.<\/p>\n

It is the second time that Gantz has thrown in his lot with Netanyahu. In 2020, after 18 months of political gridlock, the pair formed a unity government to fight the pandemic. But it collapsed in acrimony after just seven months, with Netanyahu forcing its dissolution before Gantz could succeed him as prime minister as had originally been envisaged.<\/p>\n

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Observers<\/h2>\n

Ron Dermer<\/h3>\n
<\/source>\"Ron<\/picture><\/figure>\n

No one in Israeli politics is closer to Netanyahu than his longtime ally Dermer. As finance minister in the early 2000s, Netanyahu appointed the smooth-talking Dermer, who hails from a politically active family from Florida, as economic attach\u00e9 at the Israeli embassy in Washington. In 2013, he named Dermer his ambassador to the US.<\/p>\n

When Netanyahu returned to power in January, he made Dermer \u2014 once dubbed Netanyahu\u2019s \u201cbrain\u201d \u2014 minister of strategic affairs, entrusting him with a number of sensitive foreign policy portfolios.<\/p>\n

One of the most important was his role in the drive to normalise relations with Saudi Arabia, which before Hamas\u2019 assault on Israel was one of the government\u2019s key areas of focus. Dermer has also played an important role in managing relations with the US, Israel\u2019s most important security partner.<\/p>\n

Gadi Eisenkot<\/h3>\n
<\/source>\"Gadi<\/picture><\/figure>\n

Eisenkot succeeded Gantz as the chief of staff of Israel\u2019s military and then followed him into politics, being elected to parliament last year as a member of the National Unity alliance.<\/p>\n

During his time in the military, he was the originator of Israel\u2019s \u201ccampaign between wars\u201d against Iranian-allied militias in Syria. He also headed Israel\u2019s Northern Command, which gave him lengthy experience of battling Hizbollah, the Iran-backed militant group in Lebanon that has engaged in an escalating series of skirmishes with Israeli forces in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not a man of big words and announcements. But he\u2019s a very, very focused commander,\u201d said Michael Milstein, a former Israel Defense Forces intelligence official who served under Eisenkot.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople like Gantz and Eisenkot are tough, but they\u2019re balanced and realistic,\u201d he added. \u201cWhen the government says its goal is to eradicate Hamas, they are people who really know how complicated this target is\u2009.\u2009.\u2009. and what you can achieve and what you cannot.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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