"Israel's government is facing a growing clamour to trade the estimated 229 hostages in Gaza for thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails."
Here's the thing. Bibi is gone. He's here for now. But probably not six months from now. The next PM will trade prisoners from Israeli jails to release the hostages.
It was the coalition that kept him in power. He was operating with a 35% mandate when he still wore the laurels of great protector of Israel. I think Netanyahu took his eye off the ball along with Mossad operatives off the job when he went all in on Ukraine. Trying to curry favor with DC cost Israel dearly. He knows he’s a dead man walking politically. That makes him desperate and dangerous. With DC bumbling around and giving him mixed signals, Netanyahu might go for broke and try to a Hail Mary full on attack of Iran.