Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t survive as long as he has in Israeli politics without having street smarts. He knows that his government faces incredible pressure to come up with some sort of formula to get the hostages out of Gaza as well as avoid a regional war, and not just from the Biden administration. The Israeli public has ramped up demands for both an end to the conflict and a way to ensure that Hamas cannot start a new war in the future that would bring the region back to the brink.
How do you cut a path through all of that and put Hamas on the spot instead? You endorse a US plan that has a near-zero chance of getting implemented:
After a three-hour meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu puts out a statement publicly backing the latest US bridging proposal that was presented to Israel and conveyed to Hamas at the end of the summit in…
