Benjamin Netanyahu focuses on history and aims to carry out a political resurrection

In the next few days Hamas Attack On October 7, 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuevade any public recognition of responsibility for huge security failures. He mainly avoided attending memorial services for the deceased. He rarely meets with the families of Israel’s hostages in the Gaza tunnel.

Under the previous Israeli Prime Minister, blatant mistakes in intellectual and military strategies were quickly followed by hearings and dramatic results. In October 1973, Egyptian and Syrian forces were surprised in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights and put the state in great danger within a few days. In the weeks after the attack, the National Commission of Inquiry, led by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, Shimon Agranat, was called Yom Kippur War, questioned witnesses about miscalculation and oversight that led to the crisis. Its discovery helped lead to the final resignation of Prime Minister Golda Meir and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan.

By contrast, although the leading members of Netanyahu’s military and defense agencies resigned or apologized for their role in the October 7 tragedy, he has so far avoided any real accounting but refused any inquiries. As a result, his poll numbers were horrifying in the first year after the attack. Israel’s political observers talked about ideologically when Netanyahu will finally be out of power and replaced by former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett or former Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman. However, as Nahum Barnea, a senior political columnist at the time, told me in Israel, “I went to the funeral of politicians to make sure they were buried. But a comeback is possible.”

Now, the next day Donald Trump Join Israel to bomb the Islamic Republic of Iran Nuclear facilitiesNetanyahu and his circle are counting on his political resurrection. It doesn’t matter The disaster in Gazathere are thousands of deaths and condemnation from the whole world. It doesn’t matter, Netanyahu’s political attack on democratic norms and institutions. It doesn’t matter his legal suffering.

Channel 12 reporter Amit Segal was deeply sourced in the Prime Minister’s office and was taken into account by some thoughts that made him take it. I called Segal on Sunday and less than a day, the US B-2 bomber removed the payload at the nuclear sites in Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz, known as Operation Midnight Hammer.

“In the first twelve months after October 7, it appeared to be Netanyahu’s Gallipoli, a disaster that almost ruined Churchill’s career,” Segar said. In 1916, Winston Churchill led World War I in a match as the first lord of Admiralty. Destruction failed On the Gallipoli Peninsula in Türkiye, in the hands of the Ottoman Empire.

Segar continued: “This is the most terrifying moment in Israel’s history, it is under the management of ‘Mr.'” It’s not just another scandal. It’s his reason. Today, follow autumn Hezbollah, Lebanon, Assad’s fall in Syria and the fate of Hamas, now Attack nuclear program In Iran, October 7 looks more like Pearl Harbor – a devastating defeat that ended in a full victory after a while. I think history will be seen on October 7 in the context of the Israel-Iran war. But the question is, will the Israeli public see it this way? I have no idea. But this is very important. It recreated him for Mr. Security. But this is not over yet. Still, people here see Israel’s attacks and get the green light from the United States and Trump, the most eye-catching diplomatic achievement in Israel since the United Nations vote on its existence in 1947. ”

Segal’s spin is authentic only if it seems to accurately echo Netanyahu’s obsession, vanity, thought, and even inner life. Netanyahu keeps mentioning Churchill in his memoirs. When I interviewed him in his first semester, Netanyahu smoked a huge cigar and placed a portrait of Churchill in his office. When it comes to Tehran, Netanyahu has been talking about the party storm for years. “It was 1938, and Iran was Germany,” he said in 2006. In 2011, he told British investigator Piers Morgan: “I admire Winston Churchill because I think he saw the danger of Western civilization and acted in time to persevere in bleeding.”

Sigal told me that in the event of a military attack on Iran, security agencies estimated that a retaliatory strike would kill 8,500 Israeli people. So far, reality is much lower than those expectations. Some of Iran’s ballistic missiles have been carried out through Israel’s defense defense and defense gases. era,,,,, At least 29 people were killed and 900 were injured. Sigal also allowed that when Netanyahu’s imminent strike by talking about Iran’s nuclear weapons program was justified, “to be honest, more like a literary description than a mathematical description”, this is the evidence of Iran that Israel’s intelligence is evidence that Iran has only certain weapons for the scope of our weapons, and only the scope of weapons belongs to the scope of weapons, and therefore, this is a range of weapons. Segar said the conclusion is not “they can do it tomorrow.” The key factor is that Iran is in a weak position, with most of its air defense eliminating. As a result, Siegel said: “They took out what they knew, which was more dramatic than before. But Netanyahu was right about the intention.”

When I convey Siegel’s remarks about Churchill to Amos Harel HarezHarrell laughed. “Well, this is Bibi’s narrative. As the son of a historian,” – father, Benzion Netanyahu, a right-wing historian at the Spanish Inquisition – “He thinks so. What he wants to do now. In Middle Eastern history.”

Israeli analysts told me it is not clear how or when Netanyahu may try to exploit the Iran issue for political gain. Some say he will eventually call for new elections and may even find a way to abandon his most reactionary member of the league at present, Itama Ben-GVIR and Bezalel Smotrich. Netanyahu could reach out to his critics for national unity, otherwise he might use his success with Iran to achieve success in order to fuel his path to greater autocracy. Others even speculated that he would become the longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history after attacking Iran and slamming the United States for participating in the war. His biographer and writer economistHowever, Anshel Pfeffer doubted the situation, saying: “Without that office, Netanyahu had no life at all.”