Netanyahu Just Ran Out Of Road; His Favourite Excuse Has Finally Failed

Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu may finally have managed to drive this one right to the edge.Trump’s Board of Peace was already floundering. Israel was still blocking aid, Gaza was still being starved and bombed, and this grand new institution with its flags, crest and very important-looking blue backdrop was producing about as much peace as a parking enforcement notice.Then the civilian government Israel had spent years blaming for everything when it comes to Gaza went and dissolved itself.The guns might not have vanished. But the government did. And with it went that broad Israeli claim that Hamas still controls every part of Gaza’s civilian administration and that no replacement exists.Netanyahu can still argue about disarmament. What he cannot keep doing is using Hamas’s civilian government as the reason the civilian transition cannot begin, because that government has stepped aside and Israel is still blocking the body meant to replace it. So what is your reasoning going to be now then?The replacement built into Trump’s own framework is still outside Gaza. Israel is still stopping the next move. And while Netanyahu treats Trump’s Gaza plan like junk mail, he’s demanding Washington step in and protect Israel’s military advantage over Türkiye at the same time.So yes, he may be out of road, but what Trump does next, with both his Board of Peace and with regards to this F-35 deal with Türkiye might finally prove whether the boss lives in Washington or Tel Aviv.