Israeli attack on Iran serves Netanyahu_s political ambitions

Ori Goldberg, an Israeli political commentator, says Israel’s attack on Iran serves Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political goals.

“Israel, under Netanyahu, thrives on the notion of a Forever War, as well as on borders that are as blurry as possible and on the idea that Israel deserves a full and complete impunity for whatever it chooses to do,” Goldberg told Al Jazeera.

“In that sense, a deal between the United States and Iran would have been highly disruptive to what Israel considers to be its interests at the moment,” Goldberg said, referring to ongoing negotiations between the US and Iran on Tehran’s nuclear programme.

The attack, Goldberg said, is also the result of a rapprochement between Netanyahu and the Israeli army after a year of tension over the war in Gaza.

“Both the [Israeli army] and Netanyahu hoped to find redemption in the strike against Iran,” Goldberg said, noting that the list of targets suggests that the goal was not decapitating Iran’s nuclear program, but carrying out assassinations of senior Iranian leaders, which has been a goal of the Israeli army for a long time.

“This is mainly for domestic purposes to restore faith in Netanyahu and make him potentially eligible for the next elections, or perhaps even to be acquitted at his trial, but also for the IDF and the Israeli defense establishment and for the general populace to rally around the flag and to leave behind disagreements about questions like the fate of the hostages”.

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