AKASH KUMAR
Two years after Hamas triggered the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip with its all-out invasion of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be facing the toughest moment of his decades-long career. His principal supporter, US President Donald Trump, has told him to make peace with Palestinians — and he would not take no for an answer.
But Netanyahu cannot afford peace.
Domestically, continuing the war favours Netanyahu, and, indeed, prolonging the conflict with the Palestinians has always worked to his advantage, and now Trump’s push for peace has cornered him, says Muddassir Quamar, a scholar of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the Centre for West Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi.
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