Israel’s war on Iran – no opposition within

The Israeli opposition cannot condemn Netanyahu, while it exaggerates to condemn his war on Iran. Israel will soon be left deserted, after being thrown aside without American support, it will face a concrete existential threat: the rockets will cease, to reveal the economic, psychological, and social scars of a country that favored its military industry and its dangerous dictatorship on the interests of its people.

Written by : Gideon Levi
March 22, 2026

Anyone who admires the “tremendous achievements” in this war, supports it unconditionally, and believes that Israel will come out of it stronger and more secure, should support its maker, Benjamin Netanyahu. One cannot believe at the same time that he is the most failed Prime Minister Israel has ever known, as the opposition does with its families, and at the same time admire his greatest and most historical project.

This war against Iran is not just another maneuver. It’s the maneuver, the one he will remember forever – it’s his legacy. Admiring war is admiring Netanyahu. Starting it may take a lot of guts or stupidity. Both Jews Barak, Gadi Eisenkot, Yair Lapid, Yair Golan, and Nftali Bennett, who can’t stop applauding the war and smear the army that is executing it, can no longer form an opposition to Netanyahu. If they support war they better go with the original. He, as they too see, is leading her with skill. And if they support it, there is no opposition in Israel.

The problem is that it is more and more apparent that this war may lead us to the brink of an unprecedented abyss. This crazy adventure was doomed. Iranian regime may not fall, the nuclear threat may remain, ballistic missiles remain a danger, and Israel may find itself stuck in Lebanon again. On the other hand, it may find itself at the end of the war without the United States – a far greater danger than Iran’s nuclear program.

Without American support, Israel would be left deserted, and face a real existential threat. And this scenario is alarmingly quickly turning to the most likely; as calls in the US to distance away from Israel increase rapidly across different political spectrums. And the statements being heard now are chilling, from people who were not before the war who dare to express such views in such a way. In fact, Israel has only Donald Trump left, fragile, volatile and temporary support. The world is just waiting for the chance to settle the score with the elusive Israel, which has not been listened to, after losing its American umbrella.

And this is what Israel supports today, similar to unanimously, pushing blindly into the abyss. A whopping 93% of Jewish surveyors (according to a survey by the Israeli Democracy Institute) – a proportion of North Korea – and 100% of the Jewish opposition (in accordance with Belarus). All those who hate Netanyahu and constantly warn of the danger he represents – and they are many – are suddenly impressed by his biggest adventure. And this is not straightforward, neither logically nor morally.

Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak says admiration: “Impressive achievements of the Israeli army and impressive civilian resilience, but Hamas is still in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Ayatullah in Iran.”

You have to choose: either they are brilliant achievements – and they should also be attributed to Netanyahu – or it is a dangerous and absurd war of misguidance, when it is your duty to keep fighting against him to the end. What have these “achievements” for the army, Barack? Will increasing Israeli arms sales benefit in the future? Or the American aircraft industry? Have you been removed from the status of Air Force pilots or materials and military intelligence? These are not reasons to start a war. And if it ends as it began, with the Ayat Allah, Hamas and Hezbollah remaining in power, as it seems now, these achievements are nothing but a mirage.

But the “civil resilience” that Barack admires is short-lived. When the rockets stop, the economic, psychological, and social scars will be fully revealed. Nobody took it into account when Israel went to war: no worry for children in shelters, no economic distress for them, and no consequences of living in a constant war for years. We are still in the midst of this war, but it is already clear that it desperately needs an opposition – not an opposition that glares the war and undermines only who leads it.

Ray Bergmann

27 March 2026