The last time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of "total victory" was more than ten days ago. The video does not accurately reflect the reality in Gaza at the end of six months of the IDF's stubborn war with Hamas.
In Gaza, the sights from the seashore revealed that it is already on the day after the war, while Israel only gets involved in more fronts and new threats to its security. In Israel, on the other hand, two areas of land have been abandoned by their inhabitants, and tens of thousands of refugees from the north and the south still have no prospect of a return to normalcy. The IDF's air defense systems were impressive in intercepting the Iranian missile and UAV attack on Saturday night, but with the generous assistance of an international and regional coalition led by the United States, not exactly "Israel will defend itself with its own forces," another sentence Netanyahu coined in recent years in his speeches to Yifa. It also reflects the military situation with the withdrawal of IDF forces from Khan Yunis last week. There is no real war in Gaza anymore. Next week will mark 200 days of the Iron Swords War, and the Israeli government has not yet adopted or declared a strategy regarding the day after in Gaza. Netanyahu has postponed and prevented any significant discussion on the political horizon in Gaza so as not to undermine the extremist and messianic elements of his coalition. At every strategic-political juncture that could bring Ben Gabir and Smotritz closer to threats of retirement, for the most part, he simply does not make a decision. Netanyahu could have used the iron dome of Gantz and Eisenkot in the emergency government to make difficult and significant leadership decisions for the future of the country. But he drags them with him into procrastination and indecision and runs away - only because the personal and political significance for him will be heavy. The warming in the Iranian sector changes the strategic situation, but will place Netanyahu once again, in the same conflict between his political and economic interests. The widespread assessment in the political system is that they are muscle, not credible threats to dissolve the government, but Netanyahu's partners constantly remind him of the limits.