'Utter and complete failure': Israeli journalist slams 'corrupt, dysfunctional' Netanyahu for Hamas massacre

On Tuesday morning, October 10, the Associated Press reported that the death toll in the Israel/Hamas War had reached 1600. At least 900 Israelis and 700 Palestinians, according to AP, had died since Hamas' terrorist attacked on Israel on October 7.

One of the Israelis who survived was journalist Amir Tibon, who lives in Nahal Oz, Israel near the Gaza border. Tibon discussed the attack with The Atlantic's Yair Rosenberg, and he was highly critical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Tibon told Rosenberg, "This government, which is the worst government in the history of the state of Israel, led by a corrupt, dysfunctional, and egoistic man who sees only himself — Benjamin Netanyahu — failed us. There were warning signs that this will happen. The military and the intelligence agencies warned that Israel's neighbors were seeing the internal divide in the country over the government's disastrous plan to eliminate the powers of the judiciary. There are reports coming out as we speak that Egyptian intelligence warned Netanyahu a few days ago that Hamas was planning something massive on the border."

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Tibon went on to say that when he "heard the gunfire outside" his window on October 7, he knew that the "project" to protect Israelis living near the Gaza border was "an utter and complete failure."

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Read Yair Rosenberg's full Atlantic interview with Amir Tibon at this link (subscription required).