Netanyahu claims victory over Iran – but polling shows many Israelis don’t trust him

In March, when he turned his back on the cease -fire process, the Israeli Prime Minister made a decision by some commentators similar to “political suicide”.

The Gaza Armistice Agreement, which was mediated by Donald Trump’s ambassador Steve Witkoff, even before the US President was opened to its second period, led to dozens of hostage from Hamas captivity for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons.

In the next stage, he would see that more hostage returned home before the negotiation of the war and the gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza.

The Israelis and Palestinians, who were tired of the conflict, often ended the end of the most devastating war in a common history.

But Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t want the war to end.

Since he ordered the start of the attacks in Gaza, the Prime Minister announced that the struggle will continue until the “completely destroyed”.

The safe return of the hostages in Gaza seemed to be a secondary issue. (Civil results in Gaza did not deserve a word.)

Many Israelis, especially hostage families were angry.

They accused Netanyahu of his political survival of his relatives of his relatives and the greater goodness of the nation.

In the polls, “Bibi’s popularity” fell and struggled to bring together a discrete government supported by Hardline ministers of the right and orthodox religious parties.

Three months later, Netanyahu, Nemesis begins with the glory of a magnificent military victory against Iran. Now he is said to think about the early elections and a period as a prime minister.

At a press conference at the beginning of this week, the 75 -year -old, who is already the longest serving leader of Israel, said that there are still “many tasks” to complete, and that Israel’s “people” would try to do it as long as he wanted.

Later in the week and Iran’s nuclear program, the default destruction of the “a” window of opportunity “that should not be missed, Netanyahu suggested that only the” release of hostages and the defeat of Hamas “.

However, it would be a great risk to call the early elections, and according to the latest polls, Netanyahu did not make a “leap” as much as he hoped for a 12 -day conflict with Iran.

In a broken political system in which the coalition building is a key in Knesset with a 120 -seat Knesset, Netanyahu’s Likud Party will fall very little from the majority on its own and fight to combine the support of small parties on the right, proposing the latest vote in the Ma’ariv newspaper.

The same voting showed that 59% of the Israelis wanted a significant majority to stop the war in Gaza in exchange for hostages.

Almost half of them thought about 49%, and Netanyahu’s only reason for continuing the war was his own political thoughts.

Professor Tamar Hermann, a senior research assistant at the Israeli Institute of Democracy, says, “The man is a very talented political actor.” “There is no longer talented politician in Israel.”

However, he says that “trust” is a big problem for Netanyahu.

A political leader who has changed his points to the ruling reins many times is no longer believed by the majority of Israelis.

According to the new vote, Netanyahu, which will soon be released by Hermann’s Israeli Institute of Democracy, “does not exceed 50% line for the Israelis, even expresses partial trust.”

In some respects, Prof Hermann decides to call early elections “is an even greater risk [for Netanyahu] You don’t really know where to be in the Middle East rather than attack Iran. “

Because, although the military gambling in Iran has apparently worked, there is an elephant in the corner of Benjamin Netanyahu’s living room.

Indeed, you can say that a small flock of elephant threatens to disrupt the hope of another period in the office.

Next week, he will testify in a high -profile criminal case against political corruption, including bribery and fraud.

The Prime Minister’s intense program and the Special Situation (over the Iranian War) at the end of last week’s attempts to delay the Supreme Court hearings were rejected.

Netanyahu and his supporters have tried to describe the legal case against him as a part of “politically guided witch hunting”, but in an increasingly polarized society, it is determined that his rivals should encounter equally justice.

“Bibi’s” Learning about the legal problems delayed, President Trump said that Netanyahu was “immediately canceled” or at least a “great hero” and “warrior” that should be given an amnesty.

Remember, only days ago, the same US President who condemned the Prime Minister of Israel – with statements – with discoveries, because he threatened to solve it before the Iranian ceasefire agreement begins.

However, Trump’s latest intervention was defined by many people in Israel as foolish and useless.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid said that “an independent state should not intervene in the legal process”.

Prof Hermann apparently the contradictory attitude over Israel and the attempt to intervene in the legal cause of Netanyahu “to treat us like a banana republic”.

On the international scene, many Israelis accused Netanyahu of extending the war in Gaza of unnecessarily extending the global stance and economic expectations of Israel, but many former generals said that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) reached as much as possible in Gaza.

It should not be forgotten that the International Criminal Court is still warrants in Gaza, where more than 55,000 people were killed in the war against Hamas, the Prime Minister – and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who was alleged to be against humanity.

The Israeli government strongly rejects the charges with Netanyahu and Gallant.

Ultimately, it would be difficult to imagine that most commentators were invited to new elections in Israel as the war in Gaza continued and Israeli hostages were captured.

However, most of Netanyahu’s critics and rivals wrote him early for years, and he certainly did not anticipate what his next move could be.