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Tel Aviv on fire after Gallant fired - but only thousands of protestors instead of hundreds of thousands; US officials ‘concerned’
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Pro-Netanyahu channel says protests ‘failed,’ noting low turnout
[IsraelTimes] A news station seen as heavily supportive of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says protesters “failed emphatically” to repeat the 2023 demonstrations that forced the premier to walk back his first attempted firing of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, noting the significantly smaller turnout.
“Hundreds, maybe thousands of protesters indeed went out into the streets, after millions of cell phones got text messages calling on them to take to the streets,” Channel 14 says in its coverage of the protests. “There were a few protests in various places, the largest among them on the Ayalon [highway] in Tel Aviv.”
Indeed, the number of protesters to show out appears to have paled in comparison to March 2023, though there are no crowd numbers from organizers or officials.
On the Ayalon, all protesters have now been removed from both sides of the Tel Aviv highway, according to media reports, though detritus from the rallies, including bonfires set by demonstrators, is still being cleared before traffic can resume.
Netanyahu fires Gallant, says disagreements, lack of mutual trust helped the enemy
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday evening, citing a lack of mutual trust during a time of war as his reason for doing so.
Gallant will be replaced by Foreign Minister Israel Katz, while Minister without Portfolio Gideon Sa’ar will replace Katz in the Foreign Ministry.
In a terse letter that the Prime Minister’s Office said was handed to Gallant during an 8 p.m. meeting, Netanyahu informed him that his tenure would end "48 hours from the receipt of this letter."
"I would like to thank you for your service as defense minister," the curt letter concluded.
Following the brief interaction, Netanyahu left the room and recorded the video in which he announced the firing of his longtime Likud party rival, Channel 12 news reported.
"Unfortunately, although in the first months of the war there was trust and there was very fruitful work, during the last months this trust cracked between me and the defense minister," said Netanyahu in the video statement.
He said that the two disagreed on the management of the war, and that Gallant had made statements and taken actions that contradicted cabinet decisions. The premier also accused Gallant of indirectly aiding Israel’s enemies.
"I made many attempts to bridge these gaps, but they kept getting wider," he said. "They also came to the knowledge of the public in an unacceptable way, and worse than that, they came to the knowledge of the enemy — our enemies enjoyed it and derived a lot of benefit from it."
The "crisis of faith" with the defense minister "does not enable the proper continuation of the [military] campaign," Netanyahu continued.
He said that most members of the government and cabinet were in agreement with him "that this cannot continue. In light of this, I decided today to end the tenure of the defense minister."
Tuesday’s announcement is the second time in under two years that Netanyahu has fired Gallant from the post of defense minister. In March 2023, Netanyahu fired Gallant a day after the latter called for pausing the legislation process of the government’s contentious judicial overhaul plans, which he said caused divisions that posed a threat to Israel’s security. He was reinstated less than a month later, however, and was at the helm of the Defense Ministry when Hamas
 ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
committed its deadly terror assault in southern Israel on October 7 last year and had remained in his post throughout the subsequent war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip, the fighting on the northern border and the ground operation in southern Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
Following his dismissal on Tuesday, Gallant issued a one-line statement of his own, writing on X that "the security of the State of Israel always was, and will always remain, my life’s mission."
The statement was identical to the one he published on the night of his first firing, 18 months ago.
He elaborated at a presser later on Tuesday night, where he appeared visibly emotional as he explained that the reason for his dismissal was threefold: The need to draft Haredi men to the IDF, the imperative to bring back the hostages from Gaza, and the need for a state commission of inquiry in the October 7 Hamas terror onslaught and ensuing war.
The issue of the Haredi draft, he said, "isn’t only a social one, but is a topic central to our existence — the security of Israel and the nation that sits in Zion."
Israel will be facing complex challenges in the coming years, he said. "In these circumstances, there is no choice. Everyone must serve in the IDF, and participate in the mission of defending Israel."
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi sought to tie Gallant’s dismissal to his recent calls for the ousting of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara who, like Gallant, has clashed with the government several times over laws and decisions she deems to be illegal.
Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Bugs Moroni was holding Slats from behind while his brother Greasy Thumb was pounding his face into paste ...
the Movement for Quality Government in Israel
| …one of the brigades (or whatever the appropriate military unit is) in the [Biden -]Harris administration’s covert war on Israel’s Netanyahu government. The Movement for Quality Government in Israel (MQG), one of the key organizations protesting against the coalition’s judicial overhaul program before 10/7, is Antifa, and its cadres are paid agents of the U.S. State Department, loudly demanding the complete overthrow of Israeli democracy to achieve their demands for the rearrangement of Israel’s homegrown system. MQG was previously known as V15 (for Victory 15, 2015 being the previous election Bibi won against the will of a Democratic president), both names being fig leaves for its true identity as the Israeli branch of the Washington, DC-based OneVoice Movement founded by Progressive multi-billionaire Daniel Lubetzky in 2002 as an international “grassroots” front of his PeaceWorks Foundation to drive Israel to fulfill his vision for the region without him bothering to become a citizen. The US State Department gave V15 millions of dollars under President Obama, and more in recent years... |
called on Baharav-Miara to “intervene immediately and examine the legality” of the decision to fire Gallant.
Just as they did in March 2023, protesters took to the streets up and down the country, joining spontaneous demonstrations
| …astroturf rather than grassroots, so more “spontaneous”… |
dubbed “Gallant Night 2,” though the rallies appeared to be significantly smaller than last year.
Protests erupted in both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, while dozens were reported to be protesting in Haifa, Nahariya and other communities in northern Israel, in defiance of Home Front Command instructions to limit public gatherings amid persistent rocket fire from Lebanon.
In Tel Aviv, thousands took advantage of the spontaneous nature of the protest and descended onto the Ayalon Highway, blocking traffic in both directions as police were unable to seal the entrances to the thoroughfare with trucks, as they usually do for the weekly Saturday night protests.
In Jerusalem, crowds gathered near Netanyahu’s private residence on Azza Street, calling for the removal of the premier, whom they called a “tyrant,” and for the release of the hostages held by Hamas.
The Hostages Families Forum called the firing of Gallant a “direct continuation of the efforts to torpedo the hostage deal.”
Shifting tone, US official says Gallant firing ‘concerning,’ questions PM’s motives
| They were last time Gallant was fired, too. But this time it looks like the Harris-Biden administration has more urgent concerns |
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