Netanyahu is rigging the game before a single vote is cast — blocking polling stations for 37,000 elderly voters while quietly legalizing what looks like vote-buying in Likud primaries. The coalition is rewriting election rules behind closed doors to protect a leader whose poll numbers are in freefall. A democracy that lets its ruling party gut the mechanics of voting isn't holding a free election — it's staging one.
Netanyahu's leadership isn't a liability — it's the reason Israel is still standing. While opposition politicians offer polls and press releases, Bibi delivers strategic dominance, a fully restored alliance with Washington and battlefield momentum that enemies genuinely fear. Dismantling that leadership mid-war, based on court maneuvering and media pressure, would hand adversaries exactly the opening they've been waiting for.
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