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Netanyahu maintains uncharacteristic silence as quick resolution in Iran eludes US and Israel
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Israeli citizens in a railway station being used as a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv on March 10.
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- Netanyahu is quiet during the Iran war, communicating through US media, as its fate rests with President Trump, not Israeli citizens.
- The Israeli leader has to contend with the danger that Mr Trump may decide to pull the plug on the entire operation and that Israel will shoulder the blame for what could end up being regarded as a strategic flop.
- If a ground operation against Hezbollah is to be carried out, the call-up of reservists would have to be widened, and that would prove deeply unpopular with Israel’s public.
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LONDON – For someone who has been in the thick of all the preparations for the military offensive against Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now uncharacteristically quiet. Two weeks into a war which he passionately promoted, his voice is seldom heard.
When Mr Netanyahu does communicate, he prefers to do this in English-language interviews with Fox News and other US TV outlets that he knows will be watched by US President Donald Trump, rather than address his own Israeli citizens, who are spending large chunks of their daily lives in air raid shelters.
