Netanyahu claims victory over Iran – but the poll shows that many Israelis don't believe him

Already in March, as he turned his back on the process of ceasefire, which was giving results, the Israeli prime minister made a decision described by some commentators as close to “political suicide”.

The deal to terminate the Gaza fire, mediated by Donald Trump's prana Steve Vitkoff, even before the US President was opened until his second term, led to the release of dozens of hostages from Hamas, in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons.

The next stage had to see more hostages returning home and the gradual withdrawal of the Israeli Troops from Gaza before the agreed end of the war.

Tired of conflict, the Israelis and the Palestinians were considering the end of the most destructive war in a common history, too often refined by battles.

But Benjamin Netanyahu did not want the war to end.

As he ordered the resumption of attacks in Gaza, the Prime Minister said the battles would continue until Hamas was “completely destroyed”.

The safe return of the other hostages to the gas seemed to be a secondary consideration. (The civil consequences in the gas itself do not deserve mention.)

Many Israelis, especially the hostage families, were outraged.

They accused Netanyahu of putting his own political survival before the safety of his relatives and the greater good of the nation.

The popularity of Bibi in the ballot box has decreased, and he is struggling to maintain a divorced government together by solid ministers from the extreme and Orthodox religious parties.

For three months on, Netanyahu is delayed in the glory of a spectacular military victory over his Nemezida, Iran. Now it is said that I am considering early elections and another term as Prime Minister.

At a press conference earlier this week, the 75-year-old, who is now Israel's longest leader, said he still has “many missions” to fulfill and will seek to do it as long as Israel's “people” want.

Later during the week and presentation of the alleged destruction of Iran's nuclear program as a “window of opportunities” that “should not be missed”, Netanyahu suggested that only he could “release hostages and defeat Hamas”, after which he would reach broader regional agreements.

But the summoning of the early elections would be a high risk, and according to recent polls, Netanyahu does not enjoy as big a “bounce” of the 12-day conflict with Iran as he could hope.

In a destroyed political system in which the coalition building is crucial for the 120-seater Knesset, the Lyukud Party of Netanyahu would have achieved most of itself and could fight to bring support from smaller parties to the right, offers the latest polls in the Ma'ariv newspaper.

The same survey suggests that a significant majority, 59% of the Israelis, want the battles in Gaza to stop now, in exchange for the hostages.

Almost half of the asked, about 49%, also believed that the only reason why Netanyahu continued the war was for his own political reasons.

“Man is a very skillful political actor,” says Professor Tamar Herman, a senior research associate at the Israeli Institute for Democracy. “There is no more skilled politician in Israel.”

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

A political leader who has changed his seats so many times to cling to the reins of power is simply no longer believed by the majority of the Israelis.

According to New Alling, he will soon be released by the Israeli Institute of Democracy of Prof. Herman, Netanyahu “does not cross 50% of the line with respect to Israelis, which expresses full or even partial confidence in it.”

Somehow, says Prof. Herman, deciding to call an early election, “is even a greater risk (for Netanyahu) than attacking Iran, because in the Middle East you really don't know where you will be in six months.”

This is because, despite his military gambling in Iran, at first glance, he pays off, there is an elephant in the living room of Benjamin Netanyahu.

In fact, you could say that a small herd of elephants threatens to break the prime minister's hopes for another term in office.

Next week, he must testify in a high criminal case, which is against accusations of political corruption, including bribery and fraud.

The Prime Minister's attempts to relay the hearing of the Supreme Court again because of his busy schedule and the special emergency (over the Iranian War) were rejected late last week.

Netanyahu and his supporters have repeatedly tried to present the legal work against him as part of a “politically driven hunting witches”, but in an increasingly polarized society, his opponents are equally determined that he must face justice.

It seems that he is delayed learning about the “Bibi's Legal Problems”, President Trump said Netanyahu is a “great hero” and a “warrior” whose process must be “canceled” immediately, or the least must be merged.

This, remember, is the same President of the United States, who was just a few days earlier a public casting of the Israeli Prime Minister – with specimens – as the transaction to terminate Iran's fire threatened to unravel before it began.

But Trump's last intervention was described as unwise and useless by many in Israel.

Opposition leader Jair Lapid said he should not “interfere with an independent state's legal process.”

Obviously, his controversial position on Israel and an attempt to interfere in Netanyahu's trial was close to “treating us with us as a banana republic,” says Prof. Herman.

At the international stage, many Israelis accuses Netanyahu of harming the global position of Israel and its economic perspectives, unnecessarily extending the war in Gaza, although many former generals said that in Israel the defense forces (IDF) have achieved as war as possible as possible.

The International Criminal Court should not be forgotten, and there are still orders issued against the Prime Minister – and former Defense Minister Joab Gallant – because of the alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, where more than 55,000 people were killed in Israel's war against Hamas.

The Israeli government, along with Netanyahu and Gallant, strongly dismissed the accusations.

After all, most commentators say, it would be difficult to imagine that new elections were convened in Israel, while the war in Gaza continued and until the Israeli hostages remain captive.

But many of Netanyahu's critics and opponents have written it out prematurely over the years and have certainly learned that they never relate to his second place.