Which part is a factual distortion? As far as I know, the facts I presented are pretty established. There were about 400 combat soldiers securing the border with Gaza (about 700 total.) and 10,000-15,000 in the West Bank. 400 was not enough to hold the border against a few thousand Hamasniks, as can be demonstrated by what happened. Therefore, there weren’t enough soldiers on the border with Gaza. That seems very straightforward to me.

As one of the soldiers who was in the West Bank (being pulled off the border with Gaza), I can also assure you that the soldiers in the West Bank are not keeping Jews within Israel safe. The border is wide open, and any Palestinian can quite easily cross into Israel from Yatta or Hebron. Thousands do it every day (Or at least did before October 7th, I don’t know the situation there now, to be fair.) While I was there for 8 months, a few kilometres of border was patrolled only for a few hours a day, by a small handful of soldiers, sometimes as little as three, with almsot no support. This was considered the least important aspect of “security,” so if some Jews wanted to go on a hike through the area, or somebody was sick, the soldiers “securing” the border would be the first to be taken to an alternative duty. The job of the IDF in that area was to help the settlers expand, not to defend Israelis within Israel. Only if there was some spare time would a few token soldiers be sent to defend the legal border.

I understand that you really want you really want Yehudah ve’Shomron to be a part of Israel, but let’s be honest. Settlers don’t want that land in order to secure Israel, they want that land INSTEAD of securing Israel. If the army was actually used defensively instead of doing that, October 7th 100% would not have happened. But we’ve clearly sacrificed security for expansionist goals.

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So they seek to blame others.

This is factual distoftion

At the time, Netanyahu was Israel’s Finance Minister. He resigned from the government in protest against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s unilateral withdrawal plan. Netanyahu argued that the disengagement would transform the Gaza Strip into a base for Islamic terrorism, posing a serious threat to Israel’s security.

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Netanyahou acctuly voted twice in favor And only the third time against

I did think Netanyahu had some blame in the Gush Katiff expulsion, for example he could have threatened to make coalition or government fall if they would go through with it. Like could he have resigned earlier? I thought there was an option that would have helped that he did not take. At the same time, i heard of a family deciding to stop criticizing him (among themselves) and miraculously he started to advocate for them at a meeting with Putin, though it hadn’t been in his agenda. Praying that he and all leaders and all of us can be seen for our potential good and empowered to really do Torah and Mitzvoth according to the way of the Rebbe’s directives.

As Finance Minister in Sharon’s cabinet, he not only publicly opposed the disengagement plan and supported a national referendum, but also officially registered a “no” vote during the key cabinet sessions:

In February 2005, Netanyahu stated that he “intends to vote against the decision to evacuate Jewish settlements as part of the Gaza disengagement.” On August 7, 2005, he submitted his letter of resignation and formally voted “no” on the first stage of the plan—targeting three Gaza settlements—which passed in a 17–5 vote. Subsequently, on August 15, 2005, the second stage—covering the rest of Gush Katif—was approved in a 16–4 vote; but by then, Netanyahu had already resigned and was not part of that decision.

It is important to get the facts right. Inaccuracies like this undermine the credibility of your reporting and the trust of your readership

Why October 8th? He was told by the defense establishment that Hamas is deterred. So why should he quit on October 8th for something that isn’t his fault?