Two political experts on Israeli affairs agreed that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu It continues to adopt a policy of escaping its crises and failure forward by remaining in a gray space that does not require making decisive decisions, following the approach of lying to all parties, which has helped it continue and not fall until now.
In parallel with an intense and unprecedented bombardment launched by the occupation forces on the southern Khan Yunis area Gaza stripNetanyahu cut off the hope of the families of detainees in Gaza by informing them of the absence of what he called an appropriate and relevant offer that, from his point of view, would be a basis for reaching an agreement to return their relatives.
Dr. Bilal Al-Shobaki, head of the Department of Political Science at Hebron University, believes that part of Netanyahu’s method is to lie to all parties to remain in the gray space in which he does not make a decision, and this is what he has followed since the beginning. Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood On the seventh of last October.
Al-Shoubaki explained, during his participation in the program “Gaza… What Next?”, that this appears through his dealings with various files, such as the file of exchange deals, the day after the war in the Gaza Strip, and even the course of the military operation in the Strip, because he believes that any decision will not satisfy All parties and therefore he is not concerned with taking it.
The “unforgiveness” stage
However, this method has become exposed to the Israeli street, according to Al-Shoubaki, and what drives him to insist on remaining in this space is his awareness that any decisions aimed at pleasing the street rising up against him will not satisfy him because he has reached the stage of “unforgiveness,” and therefore he relies on the solid Yemeni base through… Not showing any flexibility in what is disputed.
Al-Shobaki believes that although this path has become clear to all parties, it constitutes a successful equation for Netanyahu in the end, through which he has succeeded so far in remaining in his position in power, pointing out that part of the opposition seems complicit because he can change the political scene through… More bold steps regarding their survival within the war council.
The expert in Israeli affairs justifies this by saying that opinion polls indicate that their survival serves to increase their popularity at the expense of Netanyahu, and perhaps their thinking was based on pushing him to continue with the nonsense he is doing that increases his loss until his fall.
Regarding the movements of the people, Al-Shobaki believes that they were graduated on three levels. The first was in line with the general rush towards the military operation and the perception of its success in liberating the detainees. The second, after failing to achieve that, began to question the military operation and those in charge of it, and finally the personalization of the issue.
Al-Shoubaki believes that Netanyahu is choosing between two issues: either quick death by stopping the war and going for inevitable political changes within the country. Israel Overthrow him in light of all estimates that consider this cessation a defeat for Israel, or a slow death by continuing the war in the hope of a miracle in the future.
A clash of two titles
In turn, the writer specializing in Israeli affairs, Ihab Jabareen, believes that Netanyahu is experiencing a struggle between two titles. The first is the master of security, which he called himself and through which he adopted the strategy of not bringing Israel into the midst of any long-term battle, as he saw this as killing the Palestinian cause by creating frequent tension without Escalation waves.
As for the second title, it is what the Israeli street attached to him, which is a liar bin a liar, because of which he is experiencing a crisis of confidence, as the street no longer trusts him, which sees him as leading a battle that does not bring security, but through which he seeks to escape forward.
Jabareen considers Netanyahu's escalation of his ground campaign and his failure to respond to the demands of the prisoners' families as a return to square one, pointing out that he is running proxy wars and fronts, and is trying to appear as someone who meets the demands of sectors in the Israeli street, including some of the prisoners' families themselves.
Jabareen points out that the facts are leading to greater escalatory consequences against Netanyahu, as the demobilization of sectors of reserve soldiers will increase the movement against him in the street, since these sectors were the solid core of the protests against him before the events of last October 7, and therefore he is trying to pre-empt this by being rigid around An agreed goal, which is not to accept the establishment of a Palestinian state.