The prospect of seeing the architect of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, Benjamin Netanyahu, ousted from political office would be a small, albeit completely pyrrhic, ‘victory’. This is a politician who has spent the past three years justifying industrial-scale levels of civilian slaughter, the enforced starvation of an entire civilian population and the complete levelling of the Gaza Strip. He has been the public face of Israel on the global stage for the best part of 20 years, rubbing shoulders with world leaders and garnering support for the expansion of Israel’s settler colonial mission in historic Palestine.

As something of a political cockroach, he has managed to survive various high-profile scandals. These include criminal proceedings brought against him on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, and a (largely symbolic) arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court, one that he and leaders in the West have completely ignored. Nevertheless, it seems that Netanyahu has become increasingly awakened to the fact that his time may well be running out. He turned to his X account to post an AI-generated image of a nuclear bomb hitting downtown Tel Aviv in an ever so subtle effort to stir up feelings of existential dread amongst an Israeli public who have fully drunk the anti-Iranian Kool-Aid.

Waiting in the wings to take over could be former Israeli army chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot. He is a man said to be fervently........

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