by Moti Karpel, Makor Rishon, translated by Hillel Fendel
Netanyahu's Likud supporters love and admire him – preventing him from drawing the right conclusions.
"Netanyahu cannot quit; the public won't let him." So said recently a well-known nationalist journalist by the name of Avishai Ben-Chaim. "Even if [Netanyahu] would like to quit," continued the Channel 13 reporter, "the masses will not agree." In these short words, he summed up the trap in which the Likud Party finds itself.