West’s reaction to the growing attacks of Israel In the Gaza Strip has brought the prime minister to a very difficult position Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to Wall Street Journal report The growing pressure from Israel’s allies, including the US, to end the war in Gazabrings Benjamin Netanyahu with a dilemma: end the conflict and risk the collapse of his government or to continue and sacrifice international support.
On Tuesday (20/05/2025), British Foreign Minister David Lami said that His country inhibits free trade talks with Israel and stated that “11 weeks blocking aid to Gaza was harsh and unjustified”. Israel said the talks had already stopped.
The government of Britain also imposed penalties on two settlers and three people on the west bank. “Israel’s actions are unacceptable,” Lami also stressed.
Israeli allies, France, Britain and Canadaearlier this week They had invited the prime minister not to continue the new land attack that says it would include the occupation of the entire lane.
The European allies of Israel and Canada said on Monday that “take further specific actionsas’ if Netanyahu expands the war and suggested that they consider targeted sanctions In Israel -occupied West Bank.
But crucial to Netanyahu, The White House made it clear on Monday that President Trump wants to end warjust one day after Israel stated that started a new attack on the Palestinian enclave.
White House spokesman Carolin Libit said Trump ”He wants to see this conflict in the area end. Wants to release all hostages“. Netanyahu’s office did not respond to a request for commenting on the White House statement.
US pressure forces Israeli Prime Minister to change his calculationsas he weighs whether he will continue to wage the war in Gaza.
Netanyahu, who succumbed to the US demands and allowed a small amount of help to the Gaza Strip this week, said the threat of sanctions offers Hamas a “huge prize” for the attack on October 7, 2023, which triggered the war.
On Tuesday, Israel allowed about 100 trucks carrying aid to enter Gaza, approved by just nine on Monday, of which only five entered the strip, said Yen Laureke, a spokesman for the United Nations Humanitarian Service.
Pressure comes in the midst of negotiations with Hamas
The increasing pressure towards Netanyahu Comes while Israeli mediators are in Doha Qatari and trying to negotiate an agreement with Hamas that will end the war and will release the rest of the hostages. Qatar’s prime minister said on Tuesday that the negotiations collapsed because there was a “fundamental gap” between the two parts. Israel, whose negotiators remained in talks, wants an interim agreement with the possibility of ending the war, while Hamas insists Israel’s commitment to stop the war immediately.
In recent weeks, the US has made a series of moves in the Middle East that surprised and sorted Israel, such as the launch of direct nuclear talks with Iran, reaching a ceasefire agreement with the Houthi, the negotiation of the release of the US and the release of the US which Israel still considers a threat.
These moves, former Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Oren, said, broke a long -term principle that no country would surprise the other when it was a policy -related policy of the other.
The risk of government collapse and the indignation of citizens
Netanyahu’s far -right allies, who have several seats to deprive the coalition leader the majority in parliamentthey had stated that would abandon the government if he had entered the Gaza more help that could reach Hamas. So far, these ministers have not made their threat. If elections were now held, polls show that Netanyahu and his right -wing alliance would lose power.
Analysts say that Netanyahu also thinks how he will justify his handling of the war for the elections set for October 2026.
“It is crystal clear for the government: it must achieve the goals of the war before the election,” said Amir Avivi, a former defense official close to the current government.
Many Israelis have also been tired of war and are in favor of arrangement through negotiations to end it, according to polls. The backers are exhausted after 19 months of battle and people are angry that there are still about 20 hostages alive in Gaza and the corpses of more than 30 more in the enclave.
Leftist opposition leader Yair Golan has fiercely reprimanded the prime minister for his handling of war and the damage he is causing in Israel’s worldwide reputation.
“Israel is on the way to become a pariah state among nations, such as South Africa of the past, if it does not return to behave like a logical country,” Golan said. The politician increases his popularity, with some polls showing that his party, the Democrats, would be the third or fourth largest in Israel if elections were now held.
Netanyahu’s refusal to get involved in any plan to establish a different Palestinian administration inside Gaza is responsible for the current political crisis, said Yakov Katz, a collaborator at the Jewish People’s Institute of Politics.
It has led the allies to assume that Netanyahu is pulling the war for political purposes or intends to impose a permanent Israeli occupation of Gaza, something they are opposed, Katz said.
During his recent four -day visit to the Middle East, Trump closed significant economic and diplomatic agreements with the Gulf and Syria states, but did not visit Israel.
“You cannot ignore the fact that Donald Trump is trying to create a new Middle East, but without Israel,” Katz said.
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