Wounded yet defiant, Benjamin Netanyahu prepares for a wider war and a showdown with Iran.


“If we don’t resolve this now, we will be destroyed.”


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is political oppo- nents have counted him out on dozens of occa- sions, and several U.S. presidents — Bill Clin- ton, Barack Obama,


and Joe Biden — have ac- tively sought to undermine him while still in office. But the fact that Prime


Minister Benjamin Netan- yahu presided over the sin- gle-worst massacre of Jews in the history of the state of Israel gives poignancy to the current debate over his political viability — and the future of Israel, a Western- style democracy struggling to survive in a hostile re- gion, surrounded by bellig- erent terrorists bankrolled by Iran. In the days immediately


following the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, calls for the prime minister’s resigna- tion ran high, as did calls for a post-war account- ability commission to ap- portion blame for failing to act on what appeared even then as clear warning signs of an impending Hamas at- tack.


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