Israeli far-right parties, Ben Gvier and Smotrich, have told the prime minister basically

that there is no political option for him anything but resuming the war in full force

with the attempt to a crushing victory. And because of that, and because every poll in Israel

are saying that Netanyahu is losing the elections if they were held today.

He is convincingly losing.

Nathaniel had no other choice, politically speaking, but resuming the war.

Yes, Netanyahu got weaker since October 7th, but the security establishment became the weakest

because it has the burden of the devastating failure of October 7th.

And that's why Netanyahu, whose weaker is, in relative terms, stronger than the security establishment.

That's why he caused Gallant to leave, the IDFG for Staff Herzi Al-Levi to live, and now he tries to do the same for the chin bed.

It's 4 o'clock p.m. on Tuesday, March 18th here in New York City. It is 10 o'clock p.m. on Tuesday, March 18th in Israel,

as fighting resumes in the Gaza Strip, ending a ceasefire that lasted 57 days. And as military

operations escalate between the U.S. and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. And, oh, by the

way, as Israelis and Americans learn of the

news that Google is making its largest acquisition in history, not its largest acquisition

of an Israeli company, but of its largest acquisition in history of Israeli cybersecurity

startup WIS for $32 billion.

Once the deal closes, WIS will join the Google Cloud.

So all this is happening in the startup nation, as all these military developments are occurring, and these regional military developments are occurring.

Also on Sunday night, Prime Minister Natanyahu announced his

intention to fire Ronen Barr, the head of the Shinbet Security Agency, an announcement that

has ignited heated political debate, to say the least, inside Israel. Natanyahu cited, quote,

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