Signs of the rift within Israel’s establishment deepen even as Netanyahu declares the next phase of the war in Gaza. It took one tweet over the weekend for cracks to emerge within the Israeli political establishment. The outrage was such that the prime minister deleted the tweet, and in an unusually sober tone, apologised for his words. Israel’s longest-serving prime minister first took office in 1996, and has been in power for 13 of the last 14 years. And though the war cabinet might be divided, expanding the government to include senior military members – as Netanyahu has done – could still serve his interests politically, he added.
