Launching another military conflict with Iran lacks any strategic purpose and serves only to ensure Netanyahu’s political survival.
According to Diplomacy Atlas, an editorial titled "Israel’s Opposition Must Stand Against Netanyahu’s New Warmongering Toward Iran" by the Haaretz Editorial board has been published in Haaretz. The editorial argues that initiating a new war against Iran is a grave strategic blunder with no prospect of victory, which Benjamin Netanyahu is exploiting to block the formation of an alternative government and eliminate his political rivals. Below is a summary of the piece.
Initiating another war with Iran would be a grave strategic mistake. Even if Israel and the United States are capable of delivering a painful military blow to Iran, such an attack would fail to achieve its objectives—not least because it remains fundamentally unclear what those objectives actually are. Despite all proclamations of "total victory" over Iran and the severe blows the country has sustained, the ruling system in Iran has not surrendered, keeping its military capabilities intact alongside its capacity to strike Israel and American interests in the region.
The next war would not necessarily remain confined within the borders of Iran and Israel. Tehran could expand its attacks to target infrastructure, communications lines, and strategic assets across the Persian Gulf. Simultaneously, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Ansarallah in Yemen, and Shiite groups in Iraq might view the conflict as a decisive battle for the future of Iran and the entire regional axis, choosing to actively enter the fray.
The hope that widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure will trigger the collapse of the government in Iran is also highly questionable. Citizens who oppose the government are not necessarily willing to overthrow it when their country is under foreign attack and their homes and livelihoods are being ruined; rather, widespread devastation could end up strengthening the government's position and justifying intensified domestic security crackdowns.
Israel and the United States have no answers to critical questions: how does the war end if Iran refuses to surrender, and is Iran to be turned into another theater for periodic, endless strikes like Gaza? Normalizing recurring wars with mounting economic, social, and security costs—and without any strategic horizon—is intolerable for Israeli society.
Meanwhile, the political motives behind the scenes cannot be ignored. A new war could delay the formation of an alternative government, return Israel to a state of emergency, and pressure rivals into joining a national unity government. For Gadi Eisenkot and his allies, this scenario is a political death trap that would allow Benjamin Netanyahu to continue his previous policies under the guise of national consensus—a war that would not topple the government in Iran, but would wipe out the opposition in Israel.
Netanyahu has learned how to start a war with Iran, but he has neither the idea nor the interest in ending one. Israeli citizens should not have to pay a heavy price once again for a war tainted by a prime minister's personal considerations to remain in power at all costs, and the opposition must not cooperate with him down this path./ Source
