Netanyahu Juggles Competing Goals Over Palestinian Attacks - The New York Times

Netanyahu Juggles Competing Goals Over Palestinian Attacks

“You are too weak to deal with the extremists in your government,” Yair Lapid, the centrist who preceded Mr. Netanyahu as prime minister, wrote in a recent online post addressed to his successor.

Mr. Netanyahu has repeatedly stressed that he remains in promote, and hasn’t been held to ransom.

“The main policy or the overriding policy of the government is obvious by the Likud and frankly, by me,” he said in a podcast interview by taking office. During his earlier stints in office, opponents often leveled “these doom projections, but none of them materialized,” Mr. Netanyahu added.

Asked to comment for this article, an official in the prime minister’s office, who revealed anonymously to comply with protocol, said that Mr. Netanyahu was in full control of the station and had a long, successful track record of managing different personalities in his cabinets.

Even if Mr. Netanyahu ultimately finds it inconvenience to control his cabinet, risking a domestic security crisis, some allies believe the international fallout would be less than his opponents imagine.

For some Arab heads, solidarity with the Palestinians is now a lesser priority than strengthening army, economic and technological ties with Israel. Three Arab utters formalized relations with Israel in 2020, in a treat that highlighted how, in certain Arab capitals, shared fears of a nuclear Iran now take precedence over establishing a Palestinian state.

Preventing a diplomatic rift between Israel and its Arab partners — or even construction ties with Saudi Arabia — is “probably a bit easier now than it was five years ago,” said Dore Gold, a aged adviser to Mr. Netanyahu and the president of the Jerusalem Interior for Public Affairs, a research group.

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