Why did the Israeli military intelligence chief resign now?: Israeli political analyst

The head of Israel's military intelligence has resigned, saying he takes responsibility for the lapse in security on October the 7th.
Major General Aharon Haliva is the first senior figure to quit after the Hamas attack.
Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith is in occupied East Jerusalem for the latest.
Akiva Eldar, an Israeli author and former columnist with Haaretz newspaper, says Major-General Halavi quit likely because Netanyahu isn’t going to end the war on Gaza anytime soon.
Eldar added another reason is that the prime minister “is not interested in bringing the captives back to Israel”.
“Netanyahu is the highest authority and he never took responsibility [for the Hamas attack] so Haliva wanted to send a personal message to tell him, ‘If I can do it, you can do it,’” he said.
His move will energise antigovernment protests while putting more pressure on war cabinet members Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot. “It will create a dynamic that will make it harder for them to convince their constituencies that they have a good reason to stay,” said Eldar.
“If Haliva felt it was a time to say goodbye, many will call on them to step down since they were also part of this lack of strategy to end the conflict with the Palestinians.”
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[@majesticpresence]

He is stepping down because he knows that Bibi set up the entire oct 7th.

[@RainettaJones]

THANK U!!!!! FINALLY

[@RainettaJones]

Exactly thank u

[@Pureheart243]

Sure and thank!

[@MeisterAnime]

Hammmas is so stuhpid and took the bait 0ct7. 🤣 now gahza is deshtroyed

[@blackduck9867]

Many suspect that from a day one

[@husnabeghum2738]

He resigns bec he knows netanyu is doing genocide

[@user-ri4wb7gd7g]

Correction. The name is SATANYAHU.

[@TripleAAA787]

​@@user-ri4wb7gd7gcorrection. Even Satan has more morals than this Netanyahu.

[@arifyusaf3621]

Stop lying......he resigned because he knows payback is coming......he wants no jail time

[@987ujhpl]

You are lying. Maybe in your country crimes can be absolved by quitting the position.

[@SinaZarin]

​@@987ujhpl prove him wrong then. Comment if ever he is punished.

[@lightbeings6243]

True..

[@anshuraj4277]

Who will jail him.. Ummah? 😂

[@lightbeings6243]

@@anshuraj4277 Jails are of many types..in ancient times...there were jails where souls were imprisoned...then bodies...then both..then mind..Think beyond.

[@domingoepondulan60]

Guilty of killing of thousand Palestinians.

[@user-ub5zu5yh9e]

Thank you Al JAZEERA you tell the Truth and Nothing but the Truth. Ireland 🇮🇪 Standing with Palestine🇵🇸

[@joellee6142]

only sometimes like any news network

[@Cyroos]

really! truth and nothing but the truth?

[@Shiny124-lp4do]

I canceled CNN FOX BBC. Fake news

[@jozef2630]

Are you kidding me, El jazeera tell the truth , And by the way ireland support terrorist groups. They are bad people

[@Cyroos]

AJ will delet any comments about H-am-as terr-orsim. Why? Beacuse both AJ and hammas is funded by quateri goverment

[@Life_Is_A...]

The official narrative that he resigned out of shame is nonsensical. These guys have no shame.

[@roystonboodoo7525]

Shameless, Heartless Soulless

[@sugarpuffbutty]

Well said ❤

[@misafir716]

Stop the genocide

[@user-do7bt6eh2o]

And 473 millions of arabs doing what?? Sleeping since the Balfour declaration 1917...slaves of netanyahu.

[@petergreen5337]

❤Free PALESTINE

[@baruch1hashem]

Free Palestine from Hamass

[@sz871]

@@baruch1hashemFree Palestine from the Israeli Nazis.

[@aeternafortuna1644]

@@baruch1hashem Hamas is holding them hostage...israel is

[@jamesmiller4114]

He resigned because his version of 911 flopped

[@souelmar]

He is running away from jail sentence.

[@randomname3109]

quitting doesn't mean avoiding jail...

[@Enoba285]

Jail sentence my foot😂😂😂

[@roseismil6142]

😂 true

[@sugarpuffbutty]

He can run but he cannot hide.

[@FreePalestine.892]

He’s tired of seeing Palestinians that they murdered on his dreams.

[@Rs73Rs]

He was investigating how the Israeli government had aided the Hamas attack when he was told to resign or be sacked.

[@Greg16350]

Your theory fails because then he would be investigating himself 😂😂

[@simplica1]

And why would he do that in the first place?

[@geminigt5025]

@@simplica1 400 000 Israelis demonstrated for Nethanuyu to step down, on 6th oct. And this wasn't the only time they demonstrated for him to step down, they had been demonstrating for months, etc.

[@miguelespinoza5550]

Asesinos puercos

[@kavakurejeanBaptist-nk7jz]

Long live palesistine 🇵🇸

[@townseydroidborleyboy8024]

SCAPEGOAT!.They all guilty.

[@FreedaPeeple-in2mn]

On both sides. The only innocents in this conflict are the children.

[@SadaK-tr6dm]

- It was not an intelligence failure. - Israel let the attack happen on own people, despite knowing about the attack 3 days before it happened. - Music feistival was organised with lot of foreigners just 3 miles away from the border. Who ordered? - Music feistival was extended by one day as the attack did not happen when it was thought to happen. Who ordered? - Noticing that music feistival casuailty were less, used I.D.F to increase the casuailties in the music feistival. On whose order?

[@gdr55]

Nothing suprises me! The Israelis have been planning this genocide for years.

[@Maraboob]

This man told a lot of lies, so now he doesn't want to be accountable for what happened on October 07, and after.

[@Greg16350]

Sinwar could learn from him and resign for causing the 34000 deaths in gaza.

[@Why_did_YouTube_add_handles]

@@Greg16350 Let's say hypothetically someone steals from me, do I have the right to go kill their children? And if I do, would he be the cause of his kids' deaths? Would he go to jail for murder and robbery? Your logic is insanely flawed, even a toddler has better logical reasoning than that.

[@As-cc2xz]

​@@Greg16350 nice projection.

[@BlairMacKinnon-rf6ym]

There is no one in the Israeli Government that does not tell a lot of lies.

[@JacintaPalerm]

​@@Greg16350that's Israel responsible for genocide

[@user-ti2mk1wn2f]

He won't escape his international court hearing.

[@user-eo3gb1cq9d]

Netanyahu is not worried about the hostages him and his army must rot in jail

[@evie6304]

This was planned to happen and he knew….now he has become the fall guy!

[@Greg16350]

Taqiyya cause you can't face your crimes.

[@sampeter2761]

The world has come to know clearly now how intelligent this intelligence guys were. The iron dome, merkava etc have been proved to be a joke.

[@ferozabismilla637]

I still think that they "ignored" the rumors of an attack, and subsequently killed some of their own people, to have a big enough excuse to commit a genocide

[@micixduda]

Nova festival had international attendance.

[@avrumi]

We can put your brain to twice to a bottle and still there will be space. Nova Festival includes many Americans and people from other foreign countries,so you talking bullshit. The fact that hamas tried to do genocide on innocent people but was prevented by Israel -is the real picture you refuse to see.

[@user-dp4sj8jz8c]

This Israeli analyst thinks the chap is leaving on a high and considers the 'attack' with drones on Iran as a success? He must be having a laugh, their response was a joke

[@channelk-5145]

They are about to colapse

[@johnmarkrobinson2924]

Wrong hamas has no chance same as iran isreal far to sophisticated and the best weapons anyway they should not ov killed and took inocent people hostage could understand if they took gov and army people

[@dorothyleeuw8774]

@@johnmarkrobinson2924 That notion might seem counterintuitive and yet, when it comes to Netanyahu himself, it is unexpectedly on-brand. Prime minister for most of the last 15 years, Netanyahu has been an enabler of Hamas, building up the organisation, letting it rule Gaza unhindered - save for brief, periodic military operations against it - and allowing funds from its Gulf patrons to keep it flush. Netanyahu liked the idea of the Palestinians as a house divided - Fatah in the West Bank, Hamas in Gaza - because it allowed him to insist that there was no Palestinian partner he could do business with. That meant no peace process, no prospect of a Palestinian state, and no demand for Israeli territorial concessions. None of this was a secret. In March 2019, Netanyahu told his Likud colleagues: "Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas... This is part of our strategy - to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank." That catastrophic misjudgment alone should seal Netanyahu's fate. Taken from the Guardian.

[@user-on1oe2ds4i]

​@@johnmarkrobinson2924israhell has THOUSANDS of hostages including women and children. Israhell has not been able to defeat Hamas. Or Hezbollah. And it will never defeat Iran. Israhelli best weapons are matched by Iran. Even the overpriced underperforming F16s are matched by the superior SU35 of Russia. And we won't mention the US has been demilitarized by Ukraine. 😊

[@mohammk04]

​@johnmarkrobinson2924 how much of hamas do you think isreal has destroyed ?

[@colorswordsandlearning]

​. Poor you! Keep telling the lies to Self.

[@suhailhanslod2102]

HE MUST STILL B CHARGED N PROSECUTED FOR HIS WAR CRIMES!

[@user-dm3mr3ny3l]

Netanyahu Is the one supposed to resign

[@genevieve4418]

He is going to jump ship and flee like the coward he/sons are to Miami with family. 😂😂😂

[@Puntastic7]

@@genevieve4418what are y’all doing with letting them breathe? Should be a gonner

[@tigrecito48]

I think Spiderman's Uncle said it best: "With great power comes great responsibility for genocide"

[@rbendj22]

They knew it was coming,they didn't ignore it.

[@justadam1917]

The topics they should be discussing is their inhumane treatment of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank

[@egslaovejanegra8236]

Maybe they will put him in jail for resigning

[@dinaahdoot1761]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@genevieve4418]

Antisemitic 😂😂😂😂

[@nassibimrit3561]

!$RA£L is responsible for 07.10

[@ahmedxr8]

The LIES keep coming out

[@mohamedlangry5425]

Too late for resignation he knows he's also going to face jail time.

[@rosymylene1878]

He resigned because the ICC warrants are on their way. Or because Netenyahu offered him in exchange for saving his own skin from the ICC warrants.

[@ch.3569]

ICC warrants don't matter Israel wont recognize them, he just wont visit countries that do. Russian officials have a bunch of them. Zero arrests

[@MeisterAnime]

ICC never Jailed anyone before 🤣 its a useless organization

[@7oo338]

Usually people resign when the fight is lost. Logically .. because when it’s going the right way there’s no reason to leave the ground

[@Ohad797]

Sometimes misunderstandings too

[@Ohad797]

Thank you for trying to make it fit your wish😂😂

[@7oo338]

@@Ohad797 😂

[@7oo338]

@@Ohad797 that’s the same…

[@blakstar876]

Bb didn't want to stop the attack

[@annawarner7516]

'Scape' and 'goat' come to mind! 🤨

[@jaypie8]

Coming apart at the seams.... The whole world is marching ✊️

[@rajibullah9072]

Israel thought the good times would last forever. But nothing lasts forever 🙃

[@user-gs5rb6jq3r]

Too LATE BUT BE GONE

[@antoniorocha9438]

When the truth came out, all complicit faced unavoidable judgment.

[@Hindu_Shahi]

He is going back to his birthplace in Europe

[@handlewithcare1234]

the question remains, was it a deliberate lapse in intelligence?

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

Of course there was

[@rosymylene1878]

Yes, it was. There was a 7 hour detail.

[@bendyrland7213]

Yes. That's why he resigned.

[@handlewithcare1234]

@@Tily0507 he admits "there was a failure". Not a plan to allow an excuse for genocide

[@MeisterAnime]

Hammmas is so stuhpid and took the bait 0ct7. 🤣 now gahhza and the tunnels are deshhtroyed.

[@donzestell]

My intelligence telling Me it was an inside job

[@KustomGear1]

He now needs to be arrested for crimes against humanity.

[@SadaK-tr6dm]

“Everyone knows today that Israel is a terrorist entity.” - Manu Pineda (European Parliamentarian) on 2024-02-01, during farmers protest.

[@user-zh6lk7ed3z]

Yes Netanyahu' doesn't have any interest in the hostages.

[@IntenseShot]

Very Suspicious!!

[@mantorek15]

There is a hidden motive

[@user-gr3kq5vc5u]

Al Jazeera is the light of this universe and you can't hide the sun with your hands.

[@Kabir-cs4zd]

Resigned to get away from criminal charges against genocide.

[@allshour436]

They kicked in the Hannibal directive on Oct 6th 😂❤

[@vaclavkubicek2970]

💯

[@s5utu]

Yes definitely

[@SwingCat-is7hp]

We all know that Netanyahoo was supporting Sinwar ever since he was released from Israeli prison in the exchange. No big surprise that Mossad sent the border guards on vacation the same day Sinwar ordered the attack. Creating the perfect excuse for Genocide

[@jimifash]

Are you saying Sinwar is complicit in the killings of his people?

[@SwingCat-is7hp]

@@jimifash Sinwar spent 22 years in Israeli prison , why following his release was he so generously helped in all manner of ways by Mossad and Netanyahoo? Look into it...

[@ThanhTanyaBenMansour]

He saw that Hezbollah knew who the Special Ops soldiers were and took them out. He would be next. So, he resigned to have some chance of staying alive.

[@vaclavkubicek2970]

He knows that Bibi has planned October 7.

[@Dakshahathi]

Does Netanyahu think he will live for ever

[@Africawildlifehistorymission]

Sending peace love to the world 🌎 ❤🐘

[@mahirshahriarhussain5756]

Failure?! Ex-IDF soldiers told in interviews that there was no way for people to cross the border that way. IOF took 6 hrs to respond to such an attack. This was clearly intentional.

[@jjcarpets9833]

Nobody is buying this story

[@Hindu_Shahi]

He is running from The Hague

[@beachesney7920]

they allowed it ....we know that already ....

[@mehruneusufzai2341]

Thank you Al Jazeera for the great analysis and latest update. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@InconsequentialDot]

Oct 7th is the pretext to take Gaza.

[@4everjaguar]

His consciousness is waking up and he know all the atrocities done and still accumalating...

[@rawdyrider]

BS!They planned it on purpose to do what they are doing

[@Timetoburn-eh8ni]

Good start! It’s now time to try him and others in ICJ for war crimes!

[@user-oe7th3uw6b]

I C J is for South Americans and Africans!! It can't arrest even crazy Arabs!!! Shame

[@blidibliblubla]

Oh i thought they didnt know anything about it.. Sure sure

[@rakiyamusa845]

So he is going to jail now as netanyahu takes all youth that refused to enter the army to jail

[@jimoverly5386]

Including his draft dodger son, yair?

[@will5989]

@@jimoverly5386 He’s safe in Florida..

[@kathleenhigginbotham8237]

Bibi's son is in Miami instead of serving in the military

[@kathleenhigginbotham8237]

Miami

[@simplica1]

He resigned because, simply, he no longer believes in that what he does can result in anything he imagined. It's a dead end. There's no light at the end of his tunnel.

[@patenglish9944]

Mabey he's trying to avoid the Hague

[@ivoperic3992]

Hague is only for Serbs and Africans,

[@nukreativemusic]

Needs to be prosecuted

[@Issues-fy5sg]

Now that he has stepped down, he should be put on trial at the Hague

[@ghulamhussain687]

Looks like one by one we’re going to see a lot of this Resignations. It’s a way out of any guilt.

[@user-xl2jq7hu5j]

October 7th? False flag? Problem, reaction, solution tactic?

[@gershomg1537]

To resign now after so many deaths. Inhumane.

[@dassa0069]

rats escaping the sinking ship

[@kathleenhigginbotham8237]

Funny how Bibi's son is living it up in Miami

[@real_bakerman]

Something insane is about to happen. Haliva can't stand to watch it unravel. The guilt since 7 Oct has gotten to him.

[@theGoogol]

I don't believe Israeli's are burdened by guilt

[@stillwatersnightsky6533]

Israel is not capable of guilt that stance is long dusted off.

[@lostrelicsf2p756]

What do you guys think about Hamas?

[@ferozabismilla637]

​@@lostrelicsf2p756you would also resist living under occupation.. And no one would blame you

[@lostrelicsf2p756]

@@ferozabismilla637 no. There should be talks. Cycle of violence and hatred won't end until one side is destroyed. Also Hamas are cowards. Not freedom fighters. Palestinians need better movement for freedom struggle.

[@Arestkaramazov]

war crimes

[@jackP330]

Just a scapegoat

[@maxmartin7080]

They knew well what was happening up to two years before Oct 07th! They let it happen so they could do what they have been doing there ever since! Pure evil!

[@Williamb612]

Let me see...the fence was completely unguarded next to a music festival, and one person gets fired, and he also is of retirement age. The fence is NEVER unguarded... NEVER! Clearly this was purposely allowed to happen. Time for BB to be locked up

[@user-tu9zk2ll6q]

They let it happen That’s why..

[@user-eo3gb1cq9d]

Netanyahu days are over the war criminal must go to jail

[@durranaik]

no metal grills where he's heading

[@Cyroos]

and hamas leaders?

[@Simon.the.Likeable]

Bibi will never go to jail. He was a "made man" from birth.

[@vapormissile]

Even up those loose ends.

[@rahimsvoice]

They're trying to do damage control, but they can't escape Allah's punishment in the hereafter.

[@durranaik]

Bet he hasn't thought through that far yet

[@Cyroos]

Rahim! how do you know that!

[@MotiMota15]

Allah is not real

[@Paidcrisisactor]

@@CyroosGod forbids killing

[@durranaik]

@@Cyroos His name is Rahim he's son of the queen, he's king of khamas, come on come on Rahim will show you the rest 😁

[@Amanda-fe9of]

Jumping ship

[@zulufromhell]

Scapegoat

[@roseismil6142]

So shameful after killing so many innocent children and babies as well as families of Palestinians people, decided to retired … how shameful and disgraceful , he doesn’t want to go to jail for crimes he committed 😡

[@Judgementday-qp1ol]

Colonialism has never worked as History has taught us.

[@John-pp2jr]

Worked in america land of the free.

[@fazuelmohammed8886]

That’s just to distract blame from the fact that this has all the marking of the government involvement for them to do what they are doing now

[@user-ke8wv9lo6w]

or he might have been pressured by netanyahu as sacrificial lamb?

[@matthewiraswaye]

They knew and let it happen as a pretext to destroy Gaza.

[@user-yi4gm8ym3l]

He should be Telling this and more in the Hague as a war criminal instead of blanming Hamas

[@sayedbahari3269]

He should now be prisoned

[@nathelondon3719]

Why do you ask stupid questions? He said why!

[@mubizz80]

Stepping down is one step in the way to face justice. The law must take its course.

[@teresavarghese1177]

Just a big show. Most probably he is still there.

[@almapantoja3068]

So proud of him for being honest and taking responsibility. Something our enemy will never have done, “let our people go” Satan. You can run but you can’t hide, your punishment awaits before the God of the JEWS, the real and only holy God! 🦾🇮🇱🇱🇷🫶

[@Simon.the.Likeable]

For all the people who think Haliva could be arrested or charged, Israel does not have any extradition treaties exactly for this reason.

[@user-iq2wv6lu6i]

“The pride of your heart has deceived you” (Obadiah 1:3). Violence Against Israel: “Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you” (Obadiah 1:10).

[@vocal-hm3yo]

He being used as the scapegoat. Someone has to take the blame. Sure theyve paid him well.

[@alphagerudo6242]

Evil reveals itself when all residents of all sides choose peace 🕊 🕊

[@Ramijay90]

He knows those arrest warrants are about to be coming out soon