Prime Minister ordered legal opinion that would define his responsibility, writes Ehud Barak. Barak: Netanyahu is trying to prevent a commission of inquiry and only wants, as the commission determined, to continue a "bad culture" Netanyahu's choice of this phrase was beautiful: literary, unusual in everyday speech, certainly not in these contexts, Barak says.
The truth is we didn't need an opinion from Prof. Ariel Bandor to understand the civilian disaster in October, he writes. It became a double-edged sword for Netanyahu, it became a founding text regarding his direct responsibility for the events of October 7.