This is a devastating smoking gun and one of countless existing smoking guns, which underline,

which prove Israel's genocidal intent, including that of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,

who is of course wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes

against humanity. Now, it is important not to let Netanyahu become the fore guy.

Of course, he is a mass-murdering war criminal.

But Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people is a collective endeavor by the Israeli state,

facilitated, not least by the United States of America.

At the moment, divisions have opened up at the top of the Israeli state,

driven partly by Netanyahu's growing authoritarianism and his alleged corruption, which led the Israeli government to dismiss the head of the Shinbet, Israel's internal security services, which critics say is due to scrutiny of alleged ties between Netanyahu's office and the Qatari regime.

That's like to mass protest and Netanyahu has pronounced, there will be no civil war,

which is not normally regarded as a reassuring statement to have to issue.

But Netanyahu has been Israel's leader during Israel's genocide, and just because elements

of the state may or may not have motives

for, say, leaking things, doesn't mean it's not true. And with that in mind, we turn to a story

in an Israeli newspaper. Online, Wynet, is the portal of Yedith Aanoth, which is the biggest

newspaper in Israel by circulation. It's a story about Herzl Halavi, who was the chief of the general staff of the so-called

Israel Defence Forces from January 2023 to this month, that is, during 7 October and almost the

entirety of the genocide. The article is in Hebrew, but when translated into English, it says the

following. When Halavi presented the IDF's operations to the

cabinet in the first 48 hours of the war, he noted that the Air Force had attacked 1,500 targets in

Gaza. This is a huge number, requiring exceptional intelligence and operational capabilities.

Netanyahu erupted in anger, yelling and banging on the table. Why not 5,000? He scolded the chief of staff.

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