Opposition blasts government’s Oct. 7 probe as an attempt at ‘whitewashing’ its failures

Opposition politicians slam the government’s reported decision to establish its own probe into the failures surrounding Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught rather than a state commission of inquiry.

“The government is doing everything it can to escape the truth and evade responsibility,” says Opposition Leader Yair Lapid. “There is a broad public consensus on a state commission of inquiry. This is what the country needs, this is what the public demands and this is what will happen.”

Lapid insists that the government’s “refusal to investigate its failures endangers national security, constitutes an insult, and is an evasion of responsibility toward the soldiers and families who have sacrificed so much since October 7.”

“He who is being investigated does not appoint his own investigators,” tweets The Democrats party chairman Yair Golan. “The events of October 7 will be investigated by a state commission of inquiry. That is a promise.”

Gadi Eisenkot, chairman of the “Yashar! With Eisenkot” party, derides the proposed panel as a “whitewashing” committee established by “the only ones refusing to take responsibility for the worst disaster in Israel’s history.”

“It is unacceptable that those responsible for the failure are the ones determining its composition and true areas of responsibility under the pretext of broad agreement; it is clear that everything stems from fear and hysteria regarding the outcomes of a genuine and independent investigation,” he tweets.