11/29/2023 0 Comments Bank it or bust ideaSo why is Netanyahu still in office-and why do I keep meeting people who think he’ll still be there for a long time to come? Even Israelis who despise him, and would give him to Hamas gratis, acknowledge that it would be senseless for him to step down in the middle of a war. His overall approval rating recently clocked in at 27 percent, which for a wartime leader is desperately low, comparable to what a politician gets when (as Selina Meyer put it in Veep) “running on a platform of higher taxes and episiotomies.” A survey recently found that only 4 percent of Jewish Israelis ranked him as the most reliable of Israeli public figures. Bibi-Benjamin Netanyahu-was prime minister during the worst sneak-attack in the country’s history, and the disgust at his government’s failure was universal. Remarkably few Israelis would, in those early days of the war, have objected. One popular photo showed a lone woman with a hand-drawn sign that proposed a trade: Bibi for the Hostages. ![]() After Hamas’s October 7 assault on Israel, vigils and demonstrations broke out in Tel Aviv, mourning the dead and demanding the return of the hostages.
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