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Exactly. There are other pastrami sandwich-types of comments by Israeli leaders. Couldn't find one i posted not long ago. Got these two instead for now - again ..

Once upon a time the area was predominately controlled by Turks and Arabs. Then after WW1 Israel was created in a Zionist view. That meant a Greater Israel would be the ultimate goal. Jews already there were given a state they wished to share with only other Jews. Arabs already there were not given a state.
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Ehud Barak blames Binyamin Netanyahu for “the greatest failure in Israel’s history”

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“The immediate operational problems are being fixed now,” he says. “But a much deeper assessment will have to take place later.” When that happens, he is convinced that the blame will fall on Mr Netanyahu. “It will be clear that, above all, Netanyahu had a flawed strategy of keeping Hamas alive and kicking… so he could use them [Hamas] to weaken the Palestinian Authority so that no-one in the world could demand that we hold negotiations [with the Palestinians].”

[ Insert: Netanyahu’s policy of relying on Hamas to keep the Gaza prison from boiling over allowed his government to focus all its attention on advancing .. https://apnews.com/article/west-bank-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-government-e36ed7260e0398406d9a8ba319b0b741 .. West Bank settlement,promoting .. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/22/middleeast/israel-judicial-overhaul-palestinian-fears-mime-intl/index.html#:~:text=She%20refers%20to%20the%20overhaul,the%20end%20of%20last%20year. .. a judicial overhaul to enable annexation without granting Palestinians civil or political rights, and raiding .. https://apnews.com/article/israel-west-bank-jenin-militants-raids-ba4cfdd551349900aefb43158b6f2bcb .. Palestinian cities and refugee camps to arrest or kill militants it could no longer rely on the Palestinian authorities to control. While the wardens were looking the other way, the prisoner organizations in Gaza put their carefully concealed plans for a revolt into effect.
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Few people know the Israeli prime minister better than Mr Barak. The two men go back 55 years, to the days when Mr Netanyahu, then a commando in the secretive General Staff Reconnaissance Unit, served under Mr Barak, who commanded the unit. His older brother, Yoni Netanyahu, another of the unit’s commanders who was killed while rescuing hostages held at Entebbe Airport in 1976, was one of Mr Barak’s closest friends. In their political lives, they have been both close allies and bitter rivals.

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Mr Netanyahu is squarely to blame for the crisis, believes Mr Barak. Israel’s strategy towards the Palestinians has backfired. “Because the deaths were mainly of civilians and the state has forsaken its most basic commitment to its citizens—to keep them alive—this was the worst type of negligence.” ¦

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