Majority of Israelis remain supportive of Netanyahu’s war on Iran
We’ve been speaking to Ori Goldberg, an Israeli political commentator.
He, too, says the Iranian barrages over the past day have become smaller.
“Perhaps this is because Israel has limited Iran’s ability to launch massive barrages of dozens of missiles, and perhaps because this is a change in Iranian strategy,” he said from Tel Aviv.
“But the periods where sheltering is compulsory are growing shorter and shorter. Ten to 15 missiles reach Israel every time, and after some of them, either the ones who get through, actually make contact and impact, then the citizens are led outside the shelters by the home front.”
Goldberg said the Israeli public, to a great extent, remains “united behind” Netanyahu’s government.
“You have to remember that at least one generation of Israelis, perhaps even two, were raised on a narrative that describes Iran as Israel’s existential enemy, an enemy set out to destroy Israel,” Goldberg said.
“The majority of Israeli citizens, Jewish Israelis, certainly support this war. Some support it fervently. People are talking about a historic moment, about removing the Iranian threat using our own prowess, and not being dependent on anybody else, perhaps again, on changing the Middle East and becoming the hegemon.”
However, it is becoming clear Israel does not know what it is coming for, he said.
“More and more people are realising that this strike on Iran is eerily reminiscent of Israel’s war in Gaza, most particularly in the sense of having no clear end game or no clear off ramp.”