This is not to say Netanyahu's government can survive until Nov 2026 as is. Current forces are pushing Israel to make concessions that the fascist far-right party won't agree on. I won't be surprised if Netanyahu survives by getting Gantz to re-join his gov instead of Otzma l'Israel.

Netanyahu's other lie was that his coalition partners would bring the government down if the war ended before its goals were realized. In reality, Smotrich-Ben Gvir's exit threats were never credible, given polls showing them crashing in case of election. A ceasefire was signed, and they stayed in.

(I assume this was largely authored by Danny Finkelstein, who has still not retracted his claim that those who describe Israel's actions as genocidal are simply antisemitic trolls, and that there is no evidence that would convince him that Israel is deliberately killing children.)

I learned the meaning of principled politics the hard way. now, I know what it is: To da anything to protect human dignity and liberal democracy