The PM is gambling with Israeli lives in his last-ditch efforts to cling to power; Israel must reverse course, sooner rather than later. 

Just before the Passover holiday, as deadly Hezbollah rockets were raining down hourly on Israeli residents of the north, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on television bragging about IAF attacks on the Basij, the internal security forces of the IRGC charged with suppressing protests by Iranians opposing the tyrannical regime of the butchering ayatollahs.

Let that sink in for a moment: instead of concentrating entirely on taking out missile launchers in Iran OR Lebanon, Bibi was diverting Israel’s Air Force to attack a militia that operates purely domestically, and not against Israel or Israelis. 

Why? Because he is betting big on regime change in Iran, with the help of an uprising by the people. After promising and failing to deliver on “total victory“ against Hamas and Hezbollah – and watching his party’s unfavorable poll numbers stubbornly refuse to budge in his favor – Bibi senses that his only slim chance of staying in power after the next elections is to achieve at least one convincing victory on at least one of Israel’s fronts. And he needs to stay in power in order to continue to stymie his trial and stave off a conviction and jail sentence. 

This is the reason the panicked crook, who knows he is guilty, has been doing everything in his power for three years to derail his trial, namely: 

(1) Attempting to dismantle Israel’s independent judiciary, leading to internal divisions that encouraged Sinwar’s Hamas to start its war on October 7, funded by Netanyahu with Qatari money for decades; 

(2) Prolonging the war in Gaza long after defense experts had said it was won, at the cost of dozens of precious lives of IDF soldiers and hostages;

(3) Refusing to honor Israel’s pledge to proceed to Stage 2 of the ongoing hostage release cum........

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