Has Israel’s strategic position improved or worsened?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reported to have been paralyzed for hours, if not days, following the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023. If anyone knew that his entire paradigm of containing the threat emanating from this Islamist movement, and more generally the Palestinian issue, had collapsed in a matter of a few hours, it was he. Netanyahu has always been more of a politician and tactician than a statesman and strategist, not because he could not be the latter but because his opportunistic character has dictated that he opt for what will gain him power and help him to retain it.

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