An assessment from an American Intelligence revealed that Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration in Israel is faced with challenges which with expert warning reveals the report could give the appearance of trying to influence Israeli voters.
Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former National Security Council official said, “We didn’t need an intelligence assessment to read Israeli public opinion polls. Israel is a democracy and has a free press.
The politics of Israel are on full display.” He further clarified that “the fact that ODNI inserted this section and framed it in this manner reeks of an administration trying to meddle in Israeli democracy and put pressure on the government, the fact that ODNI inserted this section and framed it in this manner reeks of an administration trying to meddle in Israeli democracy and put pressure on the government.”
With the prevalent lack of confidence in the Netanyahu administration since the October 7th, 2023 attack by Hamas terrorists, the Office Of The Director Of National Intelligence (ODNI) reports that the situation has “deepened and expanded even more than before the war, and we are witnessing large protests demanding his resignation.”
The report stated that, “a different and more moderate government is a possible scenario,”
“Netanyahu’s viability as a leader, as well as his governing coalition of far-right and ultra-orthodox parties that pursued hardline policies on Palestinian and security issues, may be in jeopardy,”
“We assess that the Iranian leadership was not involved in the planning of the October 7 attack and that it had no prior information about the attack.”
A response from the White House on Tuesday says that both leaders may not have spoken in over a month.