Can Benjamin Netanyahu Be Stopped?

In March 2025, as the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security service, was investigating links between Qatar and some of his aides, Benjamin Netanyahu posted a message in English. It was addressed less to the citizens he governed than to an American political audience fluent in the same grievance. “The leftist Deep State,” he wrote, “weaponizes the justice system to thwart the people’s will.” Netanyahu was not then a suspect in that investigation. But he was already on trial for bribery, fraud,…