Chaim Ramon reveals: COS Kochavi and DM Gantz Vetoed PM Bennett’s Instructions To Kill Sinwar

Translation of an excerpt from Chaim Ramon’s X of May 9 2024
https://x.com/ramonhaim/status/1788588051691655678

.. the peak of Kochavi's lies came when he explained why an operation to kill Sinwar was not carried out.

"I can tell you that this is why we tried to carry out an operation to kill Sinwar and Def," he said, "we tried and it's difficult. In densely populated areas, it's very difficult."

Then he said that "we worked for months to bring about an elimination operation, but we couldn't."

I will admit and confess that this lie managed to surprise me, since Kochavi literally stopped the operation to eliminate Sinwar with his body.

In September 2021, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett ordered to prepare such an operation. After that, Bennett held a meeting every week to check the progress of the operation, and in each such meeting Kochavi explained that the IDF was not sufficiently prepared for a confrontation with Hamas, and that Sinwar was generally deterred.

After the attack in Elad in May 2022, Bennett demanded that Kochavi carry out the operation.

Kochavi strongly opposed and said to the Prime Minister the following amazing sentence: "If you want me to advance a plan to eliminate Sinwar, you have to convince me first that it is worth the war that will start following this elimination, because I am the one who will have to explain later to the soldiers and also to the bereaved parents."

In the face of Kochavi's adamant opposition to the assassination, and the support that Defense Minister Benny Gantz gave to the Chief of Staff's position at the time, Bennett folded and the assassination did not take place.

After that, Kochavi further told his men that someone had to be the adult in charge in the room, and that the Prime Minister was profoundly childish and might have led Israel into an unnecessary war.

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