Blood, Vote, and Bibi: How the Gaza war allowed Benjamin Netanyahu to return – and to save his political career. world News
It is a known fact that Benjamin Netanyahu is a great fan of Winston Churchill-the myth of an iron delayed politician against a collapsing world. Netanyahu has long been modeling himself on the British bulldog, looking at the reflection of his self-image in Churchill: embossed, unavoidable, unavoidable. But Churchill fought Hitler’s battle. Netanyahu shows an investigation by a devastating New York Times, some more pedestrians – fighting their own political extinction. The picture emerging from this investigation is not one of the war -time leader who reluctantly emphasizes the struggle, but a political operator who extinguished the war, broke the peace talks, gave a ceasefire, manipulated the state records, and destroyed the democratic check – all to live in power.
The war that will not end – and the man who will not fall
A moment in April 2024 – brief, fly, and deliberately unpublished – when Benjamin Netanyahu stopped the war in Gaza.Horticulture negotiations were progressed. An Israeli messenger was sent to Cairo. Egypt and Qatar broke up for a six -week truss. Saudi Arabia also opened the door for generalization, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman allegedly told us the National Security Advisor Jake Sulivan, “Let’s finish it,” if Israel ended the war and moved towards a two-state solution.But Netanyahu hesitated. In a cabinet meeting of Kirya in the premises of Israel’s Defense Ministry, Finance Minister Bezelle Smotrich got the air air. “Bring it,” he warned, “and now you don’t have the government.” Netanyahu turned. Publicly, he denied the ceasefire plan. Personally, he whispers for colleagues: “Don’t present the plan.” This was the moment when a national trauma-7 October massacre, the biggest single-day loss of the Jewish life-began to shape in some dark color: a shield for political existence.Read: The biggest winner of the Middle East War and the losers
Politics through other means
By mid -2024, Netanyahu had become politically corner. Poles showed the Likad collapsing. He was prosecuted for corruption. The Attorney General was investigating his colleagues. Shin Bet, Israel’s Internal Security Service, investigated irregularities around 7 October. Ekta Sarkar, temporarily proceeded by Beni Gantz and her National Integration Party. Gaza war – raw, cruel, and emotionally penetrated – offered a political lifeline.Every time when a ceasefire reached a ceasefire, Netanyahu shifted the goalpost. In July 2024, a six-minute demands were made at a promising summit in Rome, including a permanent Israeli control of Gaza-Mishra Philadelfi Corridor-Ek Hamas Red Line. The negotiaters were stunned. A trusa that could end the war broke out.In March 2025, a ceasefire lasted for less than 24 hours. The same week, the far-flung firebrand Itmar Ben-Gwir offered to resume Netanyahu’s alliance, if the war resumed. Netanyahu agreed. Budget passed. The bombs started again.During this period, US officials claimed that Netanyahu had stopped Israeli bureaucrats from discussing the post -wise plan – especially anything related to governance in Gaza. The Region? Even talking about a Palestinian administration, distant colleagues like Smotrich and Ben-Gawir were isolated.Results: IDF is operated in a loop. Israeli soldiers approved Khan Younis. Then they pulled out. Then they returned. Then they went back again. A senior Israeli officer was quoted saying that it was “the first war that we fought, where we did not know what the victory seems to be.”
Birds saving Berut
In October 2023, Israeli jets were 19 minutes away from Hizbullah’s Beerut Command Structure started 19 minutes away from starting a decapitation strike. The strike approved by IDF and Mossad could reopen the regional conflict.But Netanyahu stopped.At that time, she was deep in a conversation with Beni Gantz on a National Unity Government. Gantz’s support will give them a temporary repetition from far and wide-and perhaps from the prosecution. However, a risky strike on Hizbullah, although military is appropriate, could tease the gantage. Eventually, radar imagery revealed that the Iranian drone operator thought by Israeli armies was, in fact, there was a flock of birds. The strike was abolished. The political calculus once again ended the military pace.
Tehran Diversion: Operation Rising Lion
Israel launched the ‘Operation Rising Lion’ on 13 June 2025 with a large-scale pre-Khali air and drone strike campaign. Around 200 fighter jets and drones hit 100 targets in Iran, including uranium enrichment sites in Natanz, missile factories in tabariz and Nuclear Command Center near Tehran. The operation was planned with intelligence support from Mossad and IDF.
In June 2025, Netanyahu faced another internal crisis. Ultra-orthodox leader Moshe Ghafni was threatening to withdraw support on the controversial alliance by placing the controversial alliance on the verge of collapse.Netanyahu’s reply had increased.He authorized Israel’s most ambitious military operation in decades: Operation Rising Lion, a broad, multi-dimensional strike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. More than 100 goals were hit using bombers, littering drones and cyber attacks. Israeli Intelligence claimed that Operation had pushed Iran’s nuclear program behind “two to three years”.But when the military objective was Tehran, the political goal was very close: Jerusalem.A few days before the strike, Netanyahu informed Gafni on the pretext of military secrecy. The contained message was clear – now there was no time to top the government. Ghaffni sheltered his rebellion. Organized an alliance. Netanyahu survived.Later, it was symbolic as dramatic in a gesture, Netanyahu nominated Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, cited his “unwanted support” for Israel during the Gaza War and Iran strike. Trump privately supported the operation and publicly praised Netanyahu’s leadership. This was the moment of mutual political verification – a war -time bond recurrence as peace.Read: How the Principal Strikes at Israel’s Masterclass destroyed Iran’s nuclear program
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Israeli PM Netanyahu launched the ‘Rising Lion’ strike against Iran, reads his note in Western Wall “… a lion raises himself”
As the war and global pressure was dragged over civil deaths and mortgage failures, Netanyahu turned his attention to information control.His spokesperson, Ellie Feldstein leaked a classified Hamas Memo for the German Tabloid Build. The memorandum claimed that the anti-war protests among the Western capitals were part of a Hamas campaign. Netanyahu cited the article in a cabinet meeting: “We are being manipulated.” Along with this, efforts were made to manipulate Israel’s official records. According to the court filing, Chief of Staff Tazachi Breverman ordered Netanyahu’s October 7 phone log – 6:40 pm At 6:29, the goal was to see the Prime Minister more decisive. The meetings were taken to unheard rooms. The generals were made frightening for hidden equipment. Even IDF Chief of Staff Herzy Halevi was not spared.
Pauj starts
In March 2025, Netanyahu’s cabinet voted to fire Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar – even though the bar was actively examining the internal circle of Netanyahu.Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miyara called the move illegal. Netanyahu responded by supporting an no -confidence speed to remove her. Then, after capitalizing unity in war, he revived judicial reforms, who had earlier provoked mass protests.The institutions that had once investigated the power of Netanyahu were now systematically defiled.
Final picture
By mid -2025, the human crisis in Gaza had reached proportion to apocalypse. More than 55,000 Palestinians were killed, including more than 10,000 children, and about 90 percent of the population was displaced, which caused famine to the north and died of starvation. The aid delivery was regularly blocked or delayed, while the disease increased through congested shelters. Diplomatic, Israel suffered increasing isolation: International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for both Israel and Hamas leaders, the International Court of Justice continued to consult allegations of massacre, and the US and the European Union intensified the call for a permanent ceasefire. Saudi Arabia suspended generalization talks, and even UAE became silent. Nevertheless, contradictoryly, all of this helped Netanyahu. What should have been their collapse – a frightening intelligence failure, international condemnation and growing citizen death – instead became his political resurrection. He re -established control over rivals, weak institutions, and judiciary and security establishments, all persuading their Aadhaar that only he could protect Israel. By July 2025, a recovery appeared in the elections: Likud had stabilized, Gantz exited the emergency government, the budget was passed, and the alliance was held. Netanyahu enters as a defendant in 2026, not as a defendant. Yet history is an incompetent judge. Churchill led Britain through his dark hour, only to lose the 1945 election in a landslide. The war man appears unavoidable. Peace reminds people that they have other options. Netanyahu may have survived the war – but alive, as any churchillian knows, is not the same as victory.
