U.S. Wants to Get Rid of Netanyahu, Senior Israeli Official Rages

A senior Israeli official accused the U.S. of attempting to remove Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from power in a furious response to an American intelligence report highlighting the political peril his government faces amid the war against Hamas in Gaza.

Multiple Israeli outlets on Tuesday carried the sharp rebuke from the unnamed official after the U.S. intelligence community’s 2024 Annual Threat Assessment said Netanyahu’s “viability as leader” and his right-wing coalition “may be in jeopardy.” “We expect our friends to act to overthrow the terror regime of Hamas and not the elected government in Israel,” the Israeli official said.

Israel’s Channel 12 opened its nightly news broadcast by attributing the blistering comments to “the most senior Israeli political source you can imagine,” according to The Times of Israel.

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