{"id":15346,"date":"2024-04-01T19:05:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/01\/pressure-is-building-on-netanyahu-from-all-sides\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T19:05:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:05:01","slug":"pressure-is-building-on-netanyahu-from-all-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/01\/pressure-is-building-on-netanyahu-from-all-sides\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure Is Building on Netanyahu From All sides."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/04\/01\/multimedia\/01mideast-crisis-netanyahu-pressure-qgwp\/01mideast-crisis-netanyahu-pressure-qgwp-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Pressure Is Building on Netanyahu From All sides.\" title=\"Pressure Is Building on Netanyahu From All sides.\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As the war between Israel and Hamas approaches the six-month mark, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is confronting rising pressure on multiple fronts, at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He has encountered resistance from protesters, relatives of hostages held by militants in Gaza, the international community, and elements of his own governing coalition, as criticism mounts over his prosecution of the war against Hamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe\u2019s facing a pile-on,\u201d said Dahlia Scheindlin, a political scientist based in Tel Aviv. \u201cBut he&#8217;s responding with maximum possible defiance and minimum possible decision-making.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Although many Israelis have refrained from protesting against the government during the war, thousands of Israelis on Sunday thronged streets in Jerusalem beside the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, to call for early elections, in one of the most significant demonstrations against Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s government since the war began in October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Netanyahu has managed to serve longer than any prime minister in Israel\u2019s history in part because of his political savvy. But his popularity was already in decline before the war, over a judicial overhaul that prompted some of the biggest protests in Israel\u2019s history. It suffered another heavy blow when the Oct. 7 assault by Hamas revealed serious security failings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He has fired back at people calling for elections, arguing they would paralyze the country for at least six months and prevent it from achieving its aims in the war, which he has said includes a \u201ccomplete victory\u201d over Hamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In recent weeks, some relatives of hostages have expressed dismay at Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s handling of indirect negotiations with Hamas aimed at achieving the release their loved ones and a cease-fire. The prime minister, they so, is so determined to pursue the destruction of Hamas that he might do it at the expense of the hostages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou are torpedoing the deal,\u201d Einav Zangauker, the mother of a hostage, told a demonstration in Tel Aviv on Saturday. \u201cYou failed on Oct. 7 and you are failing today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As if to underline his troubles, Mr. Netanyahu was hospitalized on Sunday to undergo hernia surgery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He has said that Hamas was sticking to unrealistic demands, and that those who think he hasn\u2019t been doing enough to secure the release of the hostages were wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Netanyahu has also faced pushback abroad over his policies, especially those that have led to the enormous civilian death toll and destruction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In February, President Biden called Israel\u2019s military operations \u201cover the top\u201d and said the suffering of innocent civilians has \u201cgot to stop.\u201d Several world leaders have also warned Israel against a planned ground offensive into Rafah, the southern Gaza city where most of the enclave\u2019s population has sought refuge, and the Biden administration has said a major operation there would be a mistake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The U.S. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the highest-ranking elected Jewish official in the United States, went further than any senior American leader in publicly rebuking Mr. Netanyahu, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/14\/us\/politics\/schumer-netanyahu-israel-elections.html\" title=\"\">delivering a scathing speech<\/a> in mid-March that accused him of letting his political survival supersede \u201cthe best interests of Israel\u201d and of being \u201ctoo willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Within his government, Mr. Netanyahu has been dealing with divisions over whether ultra-Orthodox Jews should retain their longstanding exemption from military service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An unwieldy right-wing alliance of secular and ultra-Orthodox lawmakers, the coalition\u2019s members are divided about whether the state should continue to allow young ultra-Orthodox men to study at religious seminaries instead of serving in the military, as most other Jewish Israelis do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If the government abolishes the exemption, it risks a walkout from the ultra-Orthodox lawmakers; if it lets the exemption stand, the secular members could withdraw. Either way, the coalition could collapse, forcing elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Patrick Kingsley<!-- --> contributed reporting to this article.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the war between Israel and Hamas approaches the six-month mark, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is confronting rising pressure on multiple fronts, at home and abroad. 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