Benjamin Netanyahu, who is playing for political survival, is engaging in a very perilous balancing act.
Weakened by his failure to form a government after the March 23 elections, he is now trying to counter accusations of weakness against
Palestinian
"rioters"
launched by his far-right allies, following the cancellation on Monday of a "March of the flags" organized every year in Jerusalem to mark the conquest of the eastern part of the city in 1967.
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As a result, the police were ordered to be very firm against the Palestinian demonstrators, while avoiding causing a massacre.
But another front opened with the firing of several rockets by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, especially towards the Jerusalem area, for the first time in seven years.
The Islamist movement thus intended to react to
"the aggression of the enemy in the Holy City"
.
According to military commentators, there is no doubt that the IDF
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