Triple trouble for Israel as its furious allies bail
As Gaza starves and allies bail, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu is throwing petrol on a third crisis: a constitutional crunch with the security services, army, and courts. PHOTO: REUTERS
You might think it would be impossible for the inferno in Israel and Gaza to burn hotter. Yet Mr Benjamin Netanyahu is fuelling three parallel emergencies: a humanitarian one in Gaza, a torching of support among European allies and a constitutional crisis over who controls the security services, army, and courts.
The pressure on Israel and its institutions is almost unbearable, and a culminating moment is probably imminent. But whether that comes in the form of a re-invasion of Gaza which finally ruptures Israel's alliances and fractures its armed forces and society, or through a U-turn or ceasefire that triggers the Prime Minister's political demise, remains dangerously unclear.
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