A new emergency cabinet brings military experience, but not necessarily restraint
Read more on the war between Israel and Hamas: Brutal urban warfare awaits Israel’s army in Gaza Hamas’s carnage upends Joe Biden’s plans for the Middle East A Hamas leader refuses to admit his group planned to kill civilians The lessons from Hamas’s assault on Israel ISRAELIS TEND to come together in times of war.
Few Israelis, even those on the right, would grieve over the absence of Mr Ben-Gvir and the other religious or ultranationalist fanatics from military decision-making during a national crisis. Yet Mr Netanyahu has always put his own political survival above all else. And he appears to be continuing to do so even in the middle of a war by refusing to kick the far-right parties out of his government. Mr Ben-Gvir retains the capacity to cause problems at a perilous moment.
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