Why Bibi Fears an Inquiry of Oct. 7

July 20—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, the Butcher of Gaza, is pulling out all the stops to prevent the creation of an independent commission of inquiry into the events surrounding the bloody Oct. 7, 2023 raid into Israel by Hamas that left more than 1,200 Israelis and others dead and took more than 240 hostages, many of whom have since died.

Bibi does not want the members of such a commission to be beyond his control, as he wants to lay the blame for the failure to protect those lives at the doorstep of the military command of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin-Bet intelligence agency and, in that way absolve the Prime Minister and his government associates of all blame.

Bibi’s maneuvers come on the eve of his trip to the United States to address a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress July 24, as he has also shot a hole in negotiations, effectively brokered by the White House and America’s most able diplomat, CIA Director William Burns, for a cease-fire and hostage exchange deal. This would have been the first step of many, according to the proposal, leading to a forced end to Netanyahu’s bloody rampage against the Palestinians in Gaza that has already killed nearly 39,000 Palestinians and wounded nearly 100,000 more, many of whom were women and children. This genocidal rampage, ordered by Netanyahu, has razed most of the housing and infrastructure, reducing Gaza largely to uninhabitable rubble.

Bibi’s war, now entering its ninth month, was never really about Hamas at all. His Biblical pronouncements about a “right of revenge,” are simply cover for his messianic drive to render impossible the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state. On July 17, Netanyahu got a weak Knesset to go on record as opposing the two-state solution that heroic Israelis, such as slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (whom Bibi still calls “traitor”) had fought so hard to bring to reality.

The United States continues to support the creation of a Palestinian state, as its “not- all-there” elderly President, “Sleepy Joe” Biden has repeatedly stated. But the weakness and inept American President is a problem and obstacle to any solution, and Biden’s political weakness relegates him to rage in the background about Netanyahu and his failure to support American initiatives, while refusing to take on Israel’s Hitler-like ruler, fearing the powerful Zionist lobby and its assets. An increasing number of members within his own Democratic party now consider Biden’s re-election Nov. 5 an impossibility.

Last month, Burns and others had forced Netanyahu to agree to a U.S. backed three-stage cease-fire hostage deal, first revealed by Sleepy Joe, himself, desperate to show some kind of success in foreign affairs. But lacking the backing of a tough President, Burns has been hamstrung in forcing Bibi to allow the negotiations to reach mutual agreement and conclusion.

Most recently, July 7, Bibi issued a new set of four “non-negotiable” demands on the structure and timing of the deal—“red lines” as he called them, which he knew would force Hamas negotiators to reconsider their initial approval. Bibi did this to give him the time and space for his co-evil twin, Hamas leader in Gaza and suspected Israeli asset, Yahya Sinwar, to reject it. Both Netanyahu and Sinwar want the war to continue in Gaza, until Netanyahu can order an offensive against Hezbollah in the West Bank, which has the potential to explode into a regional war. Hezbollah had stated that they will end hostilities and strikes against Israel, if the war in Gaza halts or at least enters a cease-fire.

Then, with negotiations continuing, Netanyahu ordered a hit on Muhammed Dief, Hamas’ military commander in Gaza. The IDF believes it killed Dief; Hamas denies it. The airstrike did succeed, however, in slaughtering more than 50 innocent Palestinians, and wounding and maiming more than 400 more, including women and children. Sources report that despite this sabotage, the talks are quietly continuing.

Last week, it was reported that Burns told a private gathering of U.S. corporate and banking leaders in a retreat sponsored by the government and military contractor firm Booz Allen at the Bohemian Grove in northern California that Sinwar was under enormous pressure to end the war. His military commanders are telling him that they are tired of fighting and dying at the hands of the superior force of the IDF. Those remarks were made before the attack on Deif.

“The pressure to end the war and bring home all the hostages, living and dead, has grown enormous inside Israel, led by the families of the hostages.," a source stated. "These people have grown to hate Bibi’s duplicity and have called for the removal from the cabinet of the insane religious zealots [Finance Minister Bezalel] Smotrich and [National Security Minister Itamar] Ben-Gvir, and for immediate new elections. This later demand would likely lead to Bibi being voted out, and once out of office, his corruption trials will likely send him to prison. Netanyahu now says an election might occur in the fall. But by then, if he is not stopped, the entire region could be engulfed in flames.

“Bibi has shown himself to be the master of political events," the source stated. "What has changed is that his bloody rampage has now put him in open conflict with his own military command who want the war ended ASAP. They do not want to fight in the West Bank territory against Hezbollah which is much better armed and trained than Hamas, whose main source of funding, in fact, has been Bibi’s government. Bibi created Hamas as a political force to counter the Palestinian Authority and Hezbollah, both of whom favor a two-state solution. Now, some of Hamas’ leaders have crossed over to that side, leaving Sinwar and a handful of others as remaining opposed to a sovereign Palestinian state. Someone I know asked a top Israeli intelligence source why they have never managed to find and eliminate Sinwar. The Israeli source told them that they should ask Bibi that question, saying ‘Bibi needs Sinwar alive.’

“Netanyahu wants all the blame for Oct. 7 to fall on the military and intel people,” the source continued. “Sure, there’s some blame in those quarters. Their assets inside the Hamas leadership gave them the plans for the attack almost a year in advance. Some arrogant people claimed Hamas could never pull it off.

“But they alone do not make the decision about how to handle such things," the source pointed out. "Not in the effective dictatorship that is Bibi’s style of government. He was briefed, and he told people to stand down. He could have reinforced the border, stepped up patrols and security, and stopped all events on the border such as the tragic Nova Music Festival, which became a prime target for the Hamas killers. But he let things pass, and he even redeployed troops away from the Gaza border to the West Bank to help protect his provocative and lunatic ministers from harm.

“Any independent inquiry would find Bibi ultimately responsible for the success of Hamas on Oct. 7,” the source continued. “There are others who say that he cynically orchestrated the deaths of all those Israelis to get the excuse to launch his war of death and destruction against Gaza and the Palestinian people. I can’t say for sure. There is something else to consider. CIA analysts who reviewed Hamas’ planning documents assessed that the possibility of the attack was real and credible. Their report is said to have been shared with Bibi.”

Israel’s outgoing head of Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate, Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, confirmed July 19 that the Directorate is currently conducting an investigation into the circumstances that led to Oct. 7. Sources report that this investigation, begun several months ago, is now nearing conclusion, and that that may be some bad news for Bibi.

“[Netanyahu] is trying to avoid the creation of an independent panel, one not appointed by him and not composed of individuals likely to grant his wish to place all responsibility for the greatest disaster in Israel’s history on the military,” editorialized Haaretz July 19, which called for the creation of an independent commission, which Bibi had already maneuvered to defeat in the Knesset July 17, the same day it voted slavishly to go on record as opposing a Palestinian state.

In the absence of an official state commission of inquiry, bereaved Israeli families are organizing to establish a civilian commission of inquiry, Haaretz reported.

Meanwhile, about 300 people are participating in a protest march from Kibbutz Be’eri to Kibbutz Reim, two areas struck Oct. 7 by Hamas, demanding the establishment of a state commission of inquiry.

“How do you say it?” the source asked. “Netanyahu ‘either knew or should have known’ that the planned attack was real and active. Not only did he not order steps to protect Israel’s border with Gaza from an attack about which he had the blueprints, well in advance, but any competent commission of inquiry, that is, one that he does not control, will find that he stripped protection from the area of the attack. This is pretty damning.”