The two Netanyahus in the face of famine and genocide

One version of the Israeli leader is the amoral master tactician who has no permanent allies. Or the other more sinister character, whose goal has always been the removal of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still in power because he’s now a war leader and the courts can’t hold an inquiry into his behaviour until the war is over, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

August 6, 2025

LONDON, U.K.—“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas [from Qatar],” Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu told the parliamentary members of his Likud Party in...

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