A reckoning is of course coming. It is just a question of time. And Benjamin Netanyahu knows that any ceasefire deal brings that moment closer.
From the outside Israel seems increasingly divided and broken. Like a dam breaking, hundreds of thousands poured onto the streets of Tel Aviv in mourning and fury at the deaths of six more hostages. The target of their ire was less the people who captured the hostages and reportedly murdered them, more the country's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. These were the largest demonstrations in 18 months, half a million in Tel Aviv and other cities. And for good reason.
And Mr Netanyahu knows that any ceasefire deal brings that moment closer. What follows could lay bare his failures as leader before 7 October and since. A sense of that came from Yair Lapid, the Israeli opposition leader, who last week claimed there were 'repeated strategic warnings of an eruption of violence and the loss of deterrence' before 7 October. There is also a sense of failure and loss of confidence among Israelis, which is profoundly shocking to outsiders who know them well.
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