Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday evening that there was no betrayal by those who did not involve him earlier on the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, but “a failure.” In a video posted on social media Tuesday evening, in apparent response to backlash regarding his wife Sara Netanyahu's interview on Channel 14, Netanyahu clarified that “there was no betrayal” on Oct. 7.
“I've been asked, and I've said it several times. ‘Do you think there was betrayal?’ I said, ‘No, I don't think there was betrayal.’ I think there was a failure,” Netanyahu says in the video.
“There was a major failure, and it is reflected in what happened the night and morning before the attack,” Netanyahu continued, “that there were all the signs and they decided, due to a ‘miscalculation,’ not to upset Hamas, not to wake me up and not to attack in advance – it was a failure, but not betrayal.
It happened at terrible prices, but my wife didn't say there was betrayal either.” Following the release of the video, Democrats chairman Yair Golan posted a response to social media, saying the move is an attempt by the prime minister to engage in “damage control.” “You ‘don't think,’ Bibi? You know full well there was no betrayal,” Golan wrote on X. “On October 7th, we went out to save lives while you froze.
A true leader doesn't stammer in the face of blood libels; he apologizes to the fighters and condemns the lies that came out of his house.” “This statement by Netanyahu is not an apology, but an attempt at damage control,” Golan added. In a previous video, which Netanyahu posted to his own social media accounts, the prime minister accused the heads of the security agencies of deliberately not waking him, fearing a