Israeli political parties on right and left uniting in effort to oust Netanyahu

Multiple media sources are reporting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on the political hot seat.

This is an interesting development but not entirely surprising, and it has huge ramifications for not just Israeli politics but the U.S. as well. Here’s why.

Netanyahu has stated publicly that it was his 40-year dream to attack the Islamic Republic of Iran and overthrow its government. You can read more about Netanyahu’s obsession with overthrowing Iran’s government here. He has tried to characterize the Iran war as a battle of Israel’s “existence and future,” despite evidence to the contrary, including the glaring fact that Iran has been there for 47 years under its current regime and has never come close to threatening Israel’s existence.

But given that Israel is on the receiving end of $6.82 billion a year in aid from the United States and relies on the U.S. military-industrial complex for much of its weaponry, Mr. Netanyahu needed full U.S. backing for an attack on a 3,000-year-old civilization with 92 million people and geography and topography that makes it extremely difficult to conquer.

Not to worry! Netanyahu finally found a U.S. president in Donald Trump who was willing to place his political neck on the line for such a risky war of choice, and guess what? It didn’t go the way Netanyahu had always assumed it would, nor did it go the way he convinced Donald Trump it would.

Despite all the erroneous and fraudulent conjecture to the contrary by the likes of Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton and a host of Israeli-funded American think tanks, there has been no quick and easy toppling of the Islamic regime and Iran’s leaders have brilliantly executed their assymetrical plan of defense. The regime in Tehran was not nearly as weak and “vulnerable” as think tanks like the Middle East Forum, Iranian ex-pats living in the West, and so many others portrayed it.

Unable to match U.S. and Israeli firepower, Iran’s IRGC military leaders knew they had to make the whole world pay a price economically for the U.S./Israeli invasion. They shut down the Strait of Hormuz and have proven they can keep it closed for as long as the government holds up in Tehran. They also anticipated that the U.S. and Israel would successfully assassinate all of their top leadership, and they had a succession plan firmly in place to continue the regime’s hold on power.

With it starting to sink in that Netanyahu’s dream of Iranian conquest is likely to end in complete and utter failure, the prime minister is now finding himself on the hotseat, his long tenure likely to come to a bitter end in elections this coming fall.

The below excerpt is from an article by RT.com, explaining how the political stars are aligning against Israel’s most militaristic prime minister in recent history.

Former Israeli Prime Ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid have formed a unified party in a bid to oust Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in elections later this year.

Right-wing Bennett and centrist Lapid on Sunday confirmed the merger of their parties, Bennett 2026 and Yesh Atid, into a single list titled ‘Together, Led by Bennett’, which they described as an effort to consolidate the opposition and improve its chances in the vote, which must be held no later than the end of October. 

Bennett told reporters that joining forces was “the most Zionist and patriotic act we have ever done, for the sake of our country,” adding that “the era of division is over.” Lapid said: “We are standing here together for the sake of our children. The State of Israel must change direction.”

Widely seen as Netanyahu’s most formidable political rivals, the two have joined forces before, ending his 12-year tenure after the 2021 election by forming the short-lived “government of change,” a coalition spanning right-wing, centrist and left-wing parties.

That alliance included the Arab party Ra’am, led by Mansour Abbas, marking the first time a party representing Israel’s Palestinian minority joined a governing coalition. Netanyahu returned to power after winning the November 2022 election.

The new partnership will run as a unified list without formally merging their parties, and both have said they would seek to form a government only with Zionist opposition parties, excluding Arab factions. Bennett also said his government would advance a universal conscription law, halt funding for draft evasion, and introduce an eight-year term limit for a prime minister.

A recent Maariv poll showed Bennett’s party tied with Netanyahu’s Likud at 24 Knesset seats, while Yesh Atid has been polling at around six to seven seats.

By allowing Benjamin Netanyahu to convince him that going to war with Iran would be a good idea, Donald Trump has placed his legacy in jeopardy while also working to destroy the special relationship that Israel has enjoyed with the United States. Public support for Israel is at an all-time low in America and this disastrous war is going to finish that relationship off. Israel will be left on its own in a Middle East that has been stirred up against it more than at any point in its nearly 80-year history. Iran will be empowered like never before, and it now has every incentive to complete its development of nuclear weapons. All of these disastrous situations for Israel have been made manifest by the stupid decision to attack Iran, which was never as weak as portrayed by the American neocon war hawks, Iranian ex pats, and Netanyahu.

If Donald Trump doesn’t find an off ramp for this war soon, he will join Netanyahu on the hot seat.

And given Trump’s nature in which he seems incapable of accepting defeat in anything he does, his reaction to a disastrous foreign war of choice that makes him highly unpopular will be anybody’s guess. But I don’t expect him to take it lying down. Trump will do something spectacular to try to reclaim his popularity, because for Trump, it’s all about him being seen as a grand savior and hero. He is your classic narcissist.

In his desperation to avoid being seen as a loser, my greatest fear is that Trump will only paint himself farther into a corner, which he is unable to get out of short of some type of drastic gamechanging event. This is where false-flags or the potential use of nuclear weapons come into play, and that would not be good for Iran, Israel or America. It’s also still possible that he launches a disastrous ground invasion in which thousands of Americans come home in coffins. There are no winners in either of these scenarios, other than possibly Russia and China.

That’s why Trump would be smart to end this war now, tell his buddy in Israel to go pound sand, and let him pay the political price for swaying Trump to enter an unwinnable and very expensive war that was never in America’s national interests to begin with. Then he could sit down with fresh leadership in Israel in the fall and come up with a more sustainable policy towards Iran, because if anything has been proven over the last few years in the Middle East, it’s that you can’t kill your way to a more secure future. Despite all of the money and innocent lives that have been expended, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and the Iranian regime, are all still alive and well. None of those threats have been eliminated as Netanyahu promised they would be.

But something tells me that’s not what is going to happen. Trump and Netanyahu are joined at the hip, a tag team committed to forever wars, and if they can’t win together, they will lose together.

Pray for peace, while preparing for war. It’s about to get real.

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