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The "endless war" that keeps Netanyahu in power: Weapons of mass distraction and the mantra "don't move, don't fall"

2025-08-06 14:59:45Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The "endless war" that keeps Netanyahu in power: Weapons of mass
Netanyahu and Trump

Andrea Nicastro - Corriere della Sera

When Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu first became prime minister of Israel (in 1996), Giorgia Meloni was a Youth Front activist, while Donald Trump was running the “Miss Universe” pageant.

Like Vladimir Putin or Ali Khamenei, Netanyahu has the experience of enduring criticism, investigations, and accusations that come at him from all sides. He knows the mechanics of consensus-building well. From his initial mantra of “don’t move, don’t fall,” Netanyahu has evolved. Over the years, he has added a number of techniques to his survivor’s repertoire.

One of them is the use of social media. He is often helped by his son's friends, but his ability to control the narrative comes mainly from the support of millions of wealthy investors and allies. He is a master at attracting attention. When everything seems to be going against him, he invents a massive distraction.

The most recent example is the war with Iran. The opposition was gaining ground, corruption trials and the war in Gaza were sinking him in the polls, early elections were approaching. But with the 12-day war against Iranian nuclear targets, everything changed. Trials and elections? They are talked about maybe in October. Until then, he remains in power.

The biggest lesson he learned from Trump's first presidency was that when he was accused of fake news, his adviser Kellyanne Conway came up with a famous excuse.

"They weren't lies, but alternative facts," she said.

Netanyahu’s insistence on denying the Gaza famine comes from that very spirit. There may be hundreds of pieces of evidence, but it only takes one person to say otherwise and the public will be suspicious. And if he doesn’t convince everyone, it doesn’t matter. He just needs to give his supporters a reason to believe that it is “the others” who are lying. As Bibi himself says: “Islam is submission, Judaism is debate.”

His resilience comes not only from his ability to communicate, but also from a long-term vision. Alliances, national pride and now even the hostages held by Hamas are, in his opinion, sacrificial for the greater cause. Netanyahu grew up watching his father write a voluminous 1,384-page work on the “expulsion of the Jews” by the Catholic kings of Spain. From there was born the conviction: “We must never be weak again.” And to achieve this, Netanyahu is building a greater Israel step by step.

Back in 1998, in his early days, he interpreted the Oslo Accords in a way that would give Palestinians self-rule in only 13% of the West Bank. That was the last time he made a concession to the two-state idea. He has pursued a policy of divide and rule ever since.

In 2012, he declared: “It is important that Hamas is strong,” to balance the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. This paved the way for the Islamists to be funded. During the 2019 campaign, he promised to “pull Israel’s border to the Jordan River,” essentially annexing the West Bank. Six years later, he is succeeding with the help of settlers and the indifference of the international community.

To realize his project, he has been ready to form a coalition government with an Arab-Israeli party with an Islamist orientation. His alliances are of variable geometry, as long as he remains at the helm. Today there are messianic ministers, previously expelled from the army due to extremism. They say publicly that all Palestinians should be killed, but Netanyahu clarifies that these are not official government positions. However, the expansion strategy is the same.

Above all, it is thanks to Trump that Bibi survives. US protection saves her from the International Criminal Court and from economic or military sanctions. Netanyahu knows how to flatter the American president. He has compared him to Cyrus the Great and nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Only the "father" of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has better stroked the American leader's chest. The big Jewish-American millionaires, of course, also help.

There has only been one clash between Bibi and Trump. Once elected, Trump wanted to show that he was more capable than Biden. Netanyahu gave him a moment of glory with a temporary ceasefire. But then he broke that agreement and blocked aid to Gaza for two months. Now he is ready to decide on a full-scale occupation of the Gaza Strip. According to Artificial Intelligence, the Trump Riviera already exists.

Netanyahu's goal is to protect himself from "neighbors who hate us and want to destroy us." He compares himself to Churchill, the only one who saw the Nazi threat in time, and like the British leader, he is obsessed with the idea that he will lose the election after winning the war. From the "God of Security," the Israeli media has now dubbed him "Endless War." If the army stops fighting, his career is in danger.

But beware: It's been declared over at least ten times, and it's always been the one who has emerged victorious.


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