BENJAMIN Netanyahu bears “significant responsibility” for the massacres in Israel on October 7, according to journalist Jotam Confino.
Jotam, who has written Netanyahu’s Israel: The Rise of the Far Right (Valentine Mitchell), told me from his home in Herzilya: “It is his fault, and the fault of the military and intelligence chiefs.”
Netanyahu, he explained, had been in power for the majority of the years leading up to the attack — and it was his policy to appease Hamas with financial aid in exchange for temporary peace.
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