War in Lebanon has only fueled support for the current government, with Netanyahu’s Likud party winning a clear majority among voters in a recent poll by Channel 12. Although tens of thousands of protestors took to the streets of Tel Aviv this spring and summer demanding the prime minister’s resignation as the war in Gaza dragged on, aggression in the north has been met with widespread support. Yair Golan, head of the new Zionist-left merger of the Labor Party and Meretz and a vocal critic of Israeli strategy in Gaza, has outflanked many on the right in calling for the occupation of southern Lebanon.

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For Israel’s weary army, war in Lebanon is an attempt to salvage its image

Dystopian displays of technological prowess serve to distract the Israeli public from the military's failure to achieve its long-stated war aims.

^{Ben Reiff (+972 Magazine)}