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Bennett says government does not ever intend to establish Oct. 7 probe
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Former premier Naftali Bennett alleges that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government does not intend to ever investigate the failures of October 7, after a government representative tells the High Court of Justice that it is “not the time to establish an investigative commission” and that “the main thing right now is for the State of Israel to win the war on all fronts.”
“Anyone who says ‘later’ about the investigation into the October 7 massacre means ‘never,'” says Bennett, insisting that “as long as the Netanyahu-Smotrich-Deri-Ben Gvir coalition is in office, no commission of inquiry will be established.”
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