www.jns.org “The New York Times” promotes the smear that the prime minister let more blood be shed to cling to power. It was his opponents, however, who played politics about Gaza.
One of the great ironies of recent world historical events is that a conflict that was planned to weaken, if not destroy, the State of Israel led to the immeasurable strengthening of it. Iran helped foment a multi-front war against the Jewish state that began on Oct. 7, 2023, when a Hamas-led Palestinian Arab assault on southern Israel communities resulted in the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. That orgy of mass murder, torture, rape, kidnapping and wanton destruction left the Jewish state at what may well have been the low point of its history. Its people reeled from the horror and saw their country’s leadership as responsible for a set of colossal blunders that made this catastrophe possible.
That tragic day might have sealed the political fate of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on whose watch it all happened. But thanks to the subsequent victories Israel’s soldiers won in the field against its adversaries, the prime minister not only remains in office but probably also has an even chance of winning another term whenever the nation’s voters go to the polls sometime in the next year.
Those victories came at a high price, which involved the deaths (at the time of this writing) of 893 members of the Israel Defense Forces. Those successes against enemies of the Jewish state were also made possible only by Netanyahu’s steadfast leadership and refusal to be bludgeoned into surrendering his country’s security by its sole superpower ally. In doing so, he was able to lead the subsequent successful effort to defeat Hezbollah and Iran, and help usher in the fall of the decades-long regime of Bashar Assad in Syria, an Iranian ally. That has led to what even his opponents must concede is a stunning revival of his popularity and the standing of his government.
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