VIDEO: Netanyahu’s Political Survival Depends on “War Continuing Forever”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently announced that he’s considering an offensive against Lebanon after the fighting subsides in Rafah, the besieged city in southern Gaza where over a million Palestinians have sought refuge from the fighting elsewhere.
IPS Middle East expert Phyllis Bennis spoke to Al Jazeera about the development, pointing out that Netanyahu is unlikely to welcome an end to the conflict because it’s key to his “political survival.”
“What we’re not seeing is the likelihood of this war ending with an Israeli initiative anytime soon because Netanyahu’s political survival — his get out of jail card, if you will — depends on a war continuing forever.” Netanyahu is facing criminal corruption charges and could be prosecuted if his government collapses over the war.
Phyllis maintains that the only thing that will bring an end to this war is “serious, significant pressure from the United States in the form of cutting off the money and the weapons that are enabling this war and genocide to continue.”
Watch the full interview with Phyllis below:
