The well-known Israeli commentator and investigative reporter Raviv Drucker lets Benjamin Netanyahu off far too easily when he casts him in the prime minister's favorite role: As the political football kicked between far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich and the White House; as the disconnected old man who "wasn't woken up" in time to save Israel on October 7; as the politician focused solely on maintaining his base, and indifferent to everything else.
Drucker's Netanyahu floats trial balloons and contradictory statements, he zigzags and stalls, just to kill time in office. Thus, the Gaza war runs itself, supposedly without strategy or clear goals. It's the peak of the "spray and pray" approach.
This portrayal may sound unflattering and passive for a leader who fancies himself as the daring heir of Churchill and Roosevelt. Yet, it actually serves Netanyahu by softening principled resistance to his apparently purely tactical or reactive decisions and actions. That he is exploiting opportunities and buying time are not signs of lacking a strategy – they are the implementation of his strategy, and under favorable conditions.
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