Netanyahu stuns Israelis by describing ‘personal cost’ of Iran war – postponing son’s wedding
No, really, Avner Netanyahu’s had to cancel his planned wedding twice now for “security reasons”. Weird how there were all those days wasn’t being bombed for, you know, bombing other countries, he could’ve done it then… hope the bride is happy with the family she’s marrying into.
The Israeli prime minister’s remarks, solemnly delivered to the cameras against the backdrop of a missile-struck hospital building in the southern city of Beersheba, set off a howl of derision that echoed around the Hebrew-language internet, at the height of a war that Netanyahu unleashed on Friday. […]
The Israeli backlash to Netanyahu’s nuptial comments was instant and furious. Anat Angrest, whose son Matan has been held hostage since the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, observed that the suffering “didn’t go unnoticed by my family either”.
“I have been in the hellish dungeons of Gaza for 622 days now,” Angrest said in a post on the social media platform X.
Gilad Kariv, a Knesset member for the Democrats, called Netanyahu a “borderless narcissist”.
“I know many families who were not forced to postpone a wedding, but who will now never celebrate the weddings that were once meant to take place,” Kariv said.
It must be said, obviously, that Iran firing a missile at a hospital is clearly abhorrent and should be criticised; Iran apparently claimed it was actually targeting some military thing near the hospital, but I don’t think that makes much difference… road to hell and what it’s paved with, etc. Israel doesn’t get to make that criticism, though, not with its own history of doing the same shit in Gaza…
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