Blood, Votes, and Bibi: How Gaza war allowed Benjamin Netanyahu to stage a comeback - and save his political career

​There was a moment — brief, hushed, and deliberately unrecorded — in April 2024 when Benjamin Netanyahu almost stopped the war in Gaza.Hostage negotiations had progressed. An Israeli envoy had been dispatched to Cairo. Egypt and Qatar had brokered terms for a six-week truce. Saudi Arabia had even cracked open the door to normalisation, with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly telling US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, “Let’s finish this,” if Israel ended the war and moved toward a two-state solution.​

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