Former head of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, Yossi Cohen, said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is solely responsible for October 7, before and after. “I haven’t spoken to Netanyahu in a year and a half. He is responsible for everything that happened on October 7,” Cohen said, Israeli media reported.
Asked about Israel’s leadership, his answer is direct: “No one will win the Likud alone—that’s my frustration. I proposed uniting the party from the bottom up, but everyone wants to run independently. They’re all taking from the same cake, and in the end it just gets bigger. There’s one bloc—why not unite it? Why not have a single leader for the whole?” Cohen leans back in his chair, tall and commanding, yet relaxed, as if finally letting out truths he has long held.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set out his vision for Gaza’s future as the country’s military presses deeper into the territory. Speaking ahead of an emergency UN Security Council meeting, Netanyahu vowed to “puncture the lies” and tell “the truth” about the ongoing conflict. He insisted that Hamas still has “thousands of armed terrorists” in Gaza whose sole aim is to “destroy” Israel. Gazans, he claimed, are “begging us and begging the world” to be freed from the militant group.
Describing Hamas as a “genocidal organisation”, Netanyahu stressed, “No nation would put up with having an entity committed to its annihilation a stone’s throw away from its border.”