PNN – Since yesterday, the Hebrew media have published reports that Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen will probably be dismissed at the end of this month due to increasing differences in Netanyahu’s cabinet.
Pakistan News Network; The Jerusalem Post announced in an important news on Monday, December 25 that “Despite the conflict and the war, the planned rotation at the State Department will take place on Sunday, December 31, and Eli Cohen will be replaced by Israel Katz.”
After the news was published, Cohen said in a press interview with the Yediot Aharonot newspaper about his departure that “I respect the government’s agreement, but I think it is not right to do this in wartime.”
The foreign minister of the Tel Aviv cabinet, who is upset about the reduction of his authority and marginalization during the Gaza war, raised the question, “Why should we change the leadership of one of the most important ministries in the middle of the war?” Why is this so important to Netanyahu?”
The Hebrew media described Cohen’s performance as “weak” compared to other Tel Aviv foreign ministers and attributed his mistakes to personal rivalries and miscalculations 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-Munghosh 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 dismissed from his position and forced to flee the country.
After this diplomatic failure, the results obtained from the Hebrew TV Channel 12 survey showed that 45% of Israeli participants believe that Cohen should “resign after the scandal after the revelation of his meeting with his Libyan counterpart”.
The reporter of the Jerusalem Post, Jill Hoffman, in a more detailed report on the news of the change of Israel’s foreign minister, claimed 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.”