Political pundits across Israeli media keep explaining Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's behavior in terms of election politics. They talk as if he strives to do something to win at the ballot box, even though it's obvious that everything he's trying to and does achieve doesn't alter the polls and won't affect them.

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