The issue of dissolving the war council in Israel dominated the interests of international newspapers and websites, some of which believed that this step would put Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a confrontation with the United States of America.
In this context, the Wall Street Journal saw that dissolving the war council in Israel “relieves Prime Minister Netanyahu from the pressure to reinforce the council with controversial right-wing politicians,” but added that this decision leaves Netanyahu in a confrontation with the United States, which will remain a pressure force on Israel. To push it to review its war tactics in Gaza.
For its part, the Israeli “Jerusalem Post” wrote in its analysis that, by dissolving the war council, Netanyahu sought to keep the Ministers of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich away from the source of the war decision.
The analysis added that the disappearance of the war council would give the two men greater influence in security decisions.
The newspaper warned that this would increase the burden on Israel and negatively affect the criminal cases filed against it.
In another context, a Haaretz editorial accused Netanyahu of insulting the military establishment, and said that “if he wants to accuse the army of treason, he should not hide behind his son Yair, who has been spreading disgusting opinions.”
From Jenin, the French Liberation correspondent wrote about the deterioration of the Palestinian economy in the West Bank, and said that it had reached the stage of paralysis.
The report states that “the Palestinian economy is already fragile, and from the beginning it has been in the grip of a complex Israeli system, headed now by Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich.”
On another issue, the French newspaper Le Monde reported that Amnesty International’s head of arms and conflict issues, Aymeric Aylwin, called on France to stop exporting weapons to Israel in response to what it is committing in Gaza.
The writer praised the French judiciary’s ruling preventing Israel from participating in the Eurosatory arms exhibition hosted by France these days, but at the same time he regretted the inability of French justice and Parliament to prevent exports of weapons used in international crimes, as he said.
