Why is Netanyahu still the Israeli Prime Minister ?

“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” he told a meeting of his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”

Read the freed article from Haaretz here : https://archive.ph/kiJT0#selection-1147.0-1147.313

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Bumbles · 51-55, M

Hamas did Bibi a favor.

RodionRomanovitch · 56-60, M

@Bumbles I've heard a lot of that but don't agree.

Bumbles · 51-55, M

@RodionRomanovitch Well, could be wrong of course. I think he's horrible, it's just that people tend to rally around the leader in a crisis. Similar to George Bush after 9/11. For a while anyway.

RodionRomanovitch · 56-60, M

@Bumbles It's probably secured his position in the short term but I don't see how a fuck-up of this magnitude doesn't go unpunished. Golda Meir was out of office six months after the Yom Kippur war. I expect Bibi will be too.

Bumbles · 51-55, M

@RodionRomanovitch Interesting, did not know that. People have lost large sums of money predicting Bibi's downfall before. Their "no water, no fuel" defense minister may be in the hot seat, too. Seems too many troops were in the West Bank...

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@RodionRomanovitch I agree. And a lot sooner god forbid anything happens to those hostages