Crunch time for Netanyahu?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had a bad week, but the pattern remains: the U.S. pleads for moderation, and Israel pretends to listen, but does what it wants.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is among six named in arrest warrants by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on May 20.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

May 23, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—It has not been a good week for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyhu, chief decision-maker in the war in the Gaza Strip that has already cost at least 35,000 civilian deaths. (Some thousands of those 35,000 may have been Hamas fighters, but t...

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