Ryan Grim on Netanyahu Iran war timing

di Not A Charm: Benjamin Netanyahu

Two votes, one war, and the calendar doing a lot of quiet work underneath. Ryan Grim's read is that Netanyahu, sitting on an uncertain political future, might see another round with Iran as the cleanest route to holding onto power. The mechanism he sketches: a fresh conflict would complicate things for Israel's opposition when it comes to building a government that includes Palestinian parties, and that stall leaves Netanyahu in a caretaker seat with more runway. On the other side, Trump keeps treating the US midterms as the marker for when military action picks back up. Grim's hunch is that all the waiting-until-after-the-vote talk might point the other way, toward something landing earlier. ryangrim of Drop Site News