Netanyahu’s incendiary accusation against Biden underlines need for the state inquiry he opposes

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-incendiary-accusation-against-biden-underlines-need-for-the-state-inquiry-he-opposes/

Unprompted, the PM alleges that an arms embargo instituted by the previous US administration directly caused the loss of soldiers’ lives. It’s a charge he’s never made before, and it finds no echo in the IDF’s war probes

Even as he claimed central credit for the return of the final hostage Ran Gvili — the police officer who heroically went to war with a broken shoulder on October 7, 2023 and was killed defending Kibbutz Alumim, and whose body was located by the IDF in a Muslim cemetery in Gaza City on Monday — he characteristically refused to acknowledge any direct responsibility for the original sin, the failure to prevent Hamas’s invasion, massacre and mass abductions.

In briefings with military correspondents, officials repeatedly gave assurances that military operations were not affected, and that soldiers would not be sent on missions without adequate means to carry them out. No military probe to date has found that a soldier was killed because the necessary ammunition was not available.

This is the commission that, with its authority to issue subpoenas, is so manifestly necessary to probe everything that went wrong surrounding October 7, and to ensure there can be no recurrence.

This is the independent inquiry that, correctly fearing its conclusions regarding his principal culpability, Netanyahu has stubbornly resisted for the more than 27 months since the gravest catastrophe to befall our revived modern nation.