If Netanyahu accepts a truce, he will probably be abandoned by the extremist parties who give him a narrow majority in the Knesset, analyzes historian Ran Alévi. The war is thus trapped in the Israeli electoral system.
Never since 1948 have Israelis and Palestinians been so brutally confronted with an earthquake that shakes up their national destiny. Never have we seen such torrents of transcultural anti-Semitism unleashed. The Jewish state has never found itself so isolated on the international scene. Never has the conduct of his government seemed so erratic under the appearance of unfailing firmness.