An Israeli government source said Ben-Gvir had “caused serious damage to Israel” with his post. The same source called Ben-Gvir irresponsible, chasing scandalous popularity. “The Prime Minister must reprimand him severely once and for all,” added the minister, who wished to remain anonymous.
Those around Ben-Gvir did not remain in debt and said: “What happened tonight contradicts the decision of the cabinet of ministers. Everyone who criticizes Ben-Gvir now criticized him before October 7. Then they explained in exactly the same way why it was not worth attacking. The same the very people. We cannot continue to live in illusion, October 7 was enough for us.”
A few days ago, Ben-Gvir wrote another post with the words: “To create an effect of deterrence in the Middle East, you need to show that you have gone crazy and are capable of crazy things. You cannot allow Israel’s response to be weak in the spirit of bombing the sand dunes in Gaza. The approach, which boils down to proportionality and the ability to absorb the blow, should have been buried on October 7.”
The chairman of the opposition and Yesh Atid party, Yair Lapid, said after Ben-Gvir’s demarche that “never before has a minister in the military cabinet caused such damage to the country’s security, its image and status.” “With one post, Ben-Gvir was able to disgrace Israel from Washington to Tehran. Any prime minister would have thrown him out of office long ago. His fellow ministers, who remain silent, bear responsibility. They are part of an unforgivable military and moral failure,” it says in the Lapid reaction.
Arab media pounced on Ben-Gvir’s post and translated it to show that Israel’s response was being mocked even within the government itself. “The Israeli authorities are making fun of themselves. The Zionist regime’s Minister of Internal Security calls the incident in Isfahan a weakness,” such a comment appeared on the website of the Iranian semi-official Tasnim news agency, which is associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera translated the Israeli slang word as “mockery,” explaining that this is what the minister called the Israeli attack in Iran.
The Lebanese newspaper A-Nahar wrote that the word dardale means “showing weakness” or “disappointment.”
Let us recall that Iran does not officially recognize the fact of the attack on its targets by Israel or ridicules it as insignificant.
