Netanyahu's move to oust Bar clearly demonstrates the prime minister's desire to sideline anyone who could oppose him and install loyalists within the government. Indeed, the Shin Bet's recent investigations into Netanyahu's connections with Qatar, which supports Hamas, are likely the main reason he is acting now to push Bar out.
The primary reasons Netanyahu wants to sack Bar are because of his and the rest of the security apparatus's failure to prevent Hamas' Oct. 7 attack and Bar's constant undermining of the prime minister. Netanyahu is well within his right to fire Bar, and the attorney general is playing politics. Indeed, yet again, the left is needlessly dividing Israel during wartime to further its political agenda.
Regardless of the bickering among Israel's political and security elite, Netanyahu's authoritarian intentions are nothing new to Palestinians. Palestinians have lived under brutal occupation for decades, and, now, the circle of this repression is expanding into Israeli society itself.