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

Back in March, when he turned back to the ceasefire process, which gave the results, the Israeli Prime Minister decided described by some commentators as similar to “political suicide”.

The Donald Trump Messenger Steve Vitkoff’s cease to cease the fire in Gaza, before the US president was opened to the second term, led to the release of dozens of hostages from Hamas in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli.

The next stage was to see more hostages returning home, and the gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza before ending the war.

Tired of the conflict, the Israelis and the Palestinians provided the end of the most devastating war in common history, too often covered with struggle.

But Benjamin Netanyahu did not want the war to end.

When he ordered the renewal of gas attacks, the Prime Minister said he would continue until Hamas was “completely destroyed”.

The safe return of the rest of the hostages to Gaza seemed secondary. (Civil consequences in Gaza itself do not deserve mention.)

Many Israelis, especially the hostage families, were outraged.

They accused Netanyahu of holding their own political survival before the safety of relatives and greater good to the nation.

Bibi’s “popularity” fell in the elections, and he fought to monitor the unchanging government, proposed by ministers of the brutal line from the extreme right and Orthodox religious parties.

For three months, Netanyahu is warming up in the glory of a spectacular military victory over his Nesis Iran. Now he is said to be considering the early elections, and another term of the Prime Minister.

At a press conference earlier this week, a 75-year-old guy, who is the longest leader of Israel, said he still has “a lot of missions” and strives to do so as long as the “people” of Israel want him.

Later in a week, and presenting the intended destruction of Iran’s nuclear program as a “possibility” that “cannot be missed”, Netanyahu suggested that only he could provide “Hamas’s release and defeat”, after which he will adopt more regional agreements.

But the call in the early elections would be a great risk, and, according to recent polls, Netanyahu does not use such a “rebound” from a 12-day conflict with Iran as he could hope.

In a disliked political system, where the coalition building is key in the 120-place Knesset, the Netanyahu Netanyahu Party does not miss most and can fight to gather support from smaller parties, believes that the latest poll in the Ma’ariv newspaper.

The same poll was offered by a large majority, 59% of Israel, wanting fighting in gas to stop now, in exchange for hostages.

Almost half of those who asked about 49%also considered that the only reason, when Netanyahu continues the war, is his political reasons.

“The guy is a very skilled political actor,” says Professor Tamar Herman, a senior researcher at the Israeli Democracy Institute. “There is no more qualified politician in Israel.”

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

The political leader who has changed his places so many times to proceed with the reins of power, just does not believe most Israelis.

According to a new poll, the Israeli Institute of Democracy will soon be released, Netanyahu “does not cross 50% of the line in terms of Israelis expressing full or even partial confidence in it.”

In a sense, Professor Herman says, deciding to name the early elections, “this is an even greater risk (for Netanyahu) than an attack on Iran, because in the Middle East you really don’t know where you will be in six months.”

All because, despite its military game in Iran, it would seem that there are elephants in Benjamin Netanyahu, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Indeed, we can say that a small herd of elephants threatens the prime minister’s hopes for another term.

Next week, he should testify in a high -profile criminal case, in which he faces allegations of political corruption, including bribery and fraud.

The attempts of the Prime Minister, again, postponed the Supreme Court hearings because of his tense schedule and special emergency (during the war in Iran) were rejected at the end of last week.

Netanyahu and his supporters have repeatedly tried to reflect the legal affairs against him as part of the “politically managed witch hunt”, but in an increasingly polarized society, his opponents are equally determined that he should face justice.

President Trump, after being late to find out about the “legal trouble of Bibi”, said that Netanyahu was a “great hero” and “warriors” whose lawsuit should be “canceled immediately” or at least he needed to pardon.

Remember that this is the same US president, which just a few days earlier Public Prime Minister Israel – with explicit – since the Iran’s cease transaction threatened to unravel before it began.

But Trump’s last intervention in Israel was described as unreasonable and unauthorized.

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

He is obviously a contradictory position on Israel and an attempt to interfere with Netanyahu’s legal affairs, it was like “treating us as a banana republic,” says Professor Herman.

At the international stage, many Israeli accuses Netanyahu of harming the global position of Israel and its economic prospects, unnecessarily lengthening the war in Gaza, although many former generals stated that the forces of Israel (IDF) reached as much as gas.

It should not be forgotten that the International Criminal Court still has warrants issued against the Prime Minister – and former Defense Minister Joava Galanta – on the occasion of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, where more than 55,000 people were killed in the Israel war against Hamas.

The Israeli government, together with Netanyahu and Galanta, greatly dismisses the allegations.

Ultimately, most commentators say it would be difficult to imagine the new elections to be called in Israel, and the war in gas is ongoing, and while Israeli hostages remain in captivity.

But many critics and opponents of Netanyahu wrote him over the years and certainly learned never to give the second one what his next step could be.