Is Eli Cohen fired in the middle of the Gaza war?

Fars News Agency International Group; The Jerusalem Post announced in an important news on Monday, December 25, that “despite the conflict and war, the planned rotation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will take place on Sunday, December 31, and Israel Katz will replace Eli Cohen”.

After the publication of this news, Cohen said in a press interview with Yediot Aharonot newspaper about his departure that “I respect the agreement of the government, but I think it is not right to do this in time of war”.

The foreign minister of the Tel Aviv cabinet, who is upset about the reduction of his authority and the marginalization of his position during the Gaza war, raised the question that “why should we, in the midst of the war, be the leader of one of the most important Change the ministries? Why is this so important to Netanyahu?”

^{Isolation of Cohen among members of Netanyahu’s cabinet}

Hebrew media called Cohen’s performance “weak” compared to other Tel Aviv foreign ministers And the reasons for his mistakes were described as personal rivalries and calculation errors in the cabinet. The height of the crisis created by the current foreign minister of Tel Aviv was the leaking of the news and pictures of his meeting with his Libyan counterpart, Najla Al-Monghosh, which started a new wave of denormalization of relations with Tel Aviv in the region.

After the disclosure of the secret meeting between Cohen and Al-Munqosh in Rome, the capital of Italy, on August 27, the Libyan people came to the streets of Tripoli to protest any relations with Israel and burned the pictures of both foreign ministers; The intensity of the reactions was so great that al-Munkhosh was removed from his position and forced to flee the country.

^{Objections to Al-Monghosh’s meeting with Cohen in Libya}

After this diplomatic failure, the results obtained from the poll Hebrew TV Network 12 showed that 45% of the Israeli participants believe that Cohen should “resign after the scandal after the revelation of his meeting with his Libyan counterpart”.

Jerusalem Post reporter Jill Hoffman claimed in a more detailed report on the news of the Israeli foreign minister’s change that “Netanyahu discredited the post of foreign minister, which was the second most powerful job in Israel, so that Cohen would not have a role in the developments and withdraw himself”.

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