Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hit a nadir — even for him — and he will soon go even lower as he foments what could become a civil war in Israel. The current internal Israeli strife might be worse than the situation on Oct. 6, 2023, the day before the Hamas massacres.

Beset by a multiplicity of scandals, including within the prime minister’s office, a substantial majority of Israelis increasingly fears that, even after 17 months of war, Netanyahu continues to operate for his own political benefit rather than the benefit of the country.

The hostages remaining in Gaza — the single most important issue for Israelis — have been abandoned as Israel has restarted the Gaza war. Evidence mounted during the ceasefire that Netanyahu’s primary war objective, the elimination of Hamas as a coherent unit, had thus far failed.

Unsurprisingly, Netanyahu has begun to lash out, using sound-bite canards that bear no relationship to fact. In a video released last week, he blamed “deep state leftists” for all his problems. Separately, Netanyahu claimed that Ronen Bar — the head of the General Security Services (or Shin Bet, as it is known by its Hebrew acronym), whom he is trying to fire — had early knowledge of the Oct. 7 attack but kept it to himself.

While we in the U.S. are by now familiar with claims of a left-wing “deep state,” it rings........

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