Israel is approaching another election season.

Or, in modern Hebrew: “National reality TV with ballistic missiles.”

The country is exhausted.
The north is tense.
The south is still traumatized.
The economy is limping forward on caffeine and reserve duty.

And the political system?

Still obsessed with one sacred national mission: “How do we finally get rid of Bibi?”

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Not:
“How do we defeat our enemies?”
Not:
“How do we restore governance?”
Not:
“How do we secure the borders?”

No.

Just: “Maybe this investigation will work.”

Gulliver In The Land Of Political Dwarfs

Israeli politics has become something between Shakespeare and a psychiatric experiment.

At this point, Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer merely a politician.
He is a weather phenomenon.

A strange hybrid of Gulliver, Winston Churchill, a stress ball, and the collective obsession of half the country.

And surrounding him?
An endless army of political dwarfs trying to take down a giant using plastic spoons and television panels.

Every few months a new savior appears.

One has a podcast.
One has a military background.
One speaks entirely in LinkedIn motivational slogans.
Another arrives with “new values,” “new hope,” and polling numbers that collapse faster than crypto scams.

Every single one promises:
“This time it’s over.”

And every election ends with Israelis staring at the screen like people watching toddlers attempt to arrest a bear.

The Anti-Bibi Industry

The greatest irony in Israeli politics is that Netanyahu’s opponents helped build the myth they now cannot destroy.

The more they chase him,
the larger he becomes.

Every indictment turned into a campaign poster.
Every media leak became political fuel.
Every dramatic “this is the end” speech somehow produced another comeback.

At some point, it stopped looking like law enforcement and started resembling a Netflix series written by angry journalists with espresso addictions.

And the public notices.

Israelis may argue about everything,
but they are not stupid.

They see how every cigar becomes breaking news,
while catastrophic strategic failures, years of security blindness, and institutional incompetence somehow receive the media enthusiasm of a dead goldfish.

The Eternal Apocalypse Campaign

Of course, the coming elections will once again feature the traditional menu:

“End of democracy.”
“Dictatorship.”
“Fascism.”
“Theocracy.”
“Economic collapse.”
“Final battle for Israel’s soul.”

According to Israeli television analysts, the country has been seconds away from destruction since approximately 1996.

Yet somehow:
the economy survived,
the army survived,
the high-tech sector survived,
and cafes in Tel Aviv still charge seven dollars for coffee.

Which may be the greatest democratic achievement of all.

Meet The New Dwarfs

What truly amazes people now is the quality of the alternatives.

There was a time when political rivals had ideology.

Today Israeli politics resembles a casting call for a startup conference mixed with group therapy.

One candidate speaks entirely in corporate TED Talk language.
Another sounds like an AI-generated motivational speaker.
A third still believes being a general in 2009 automatically qualifies him to run civilization forever.

And the media introduces every new candidate like the Messiah descending from heaven on an electric scooter.

Two weeks later he disappears into the graveyard of failed centrist parties.

The Public Changed

And this is the real problem for the “Anyone But Bibi” camp.

They still think they are living in Israel of the late 1990s.

They believe dramatic music on television still controls public opinion.
They think newspaper headlines terrify people.
They assume emotional studio debates equal leadership.

But post-October 7 Israel changed.

People now care about:
security,
identity,
borders,
governance,
national survival.

The average Israeli increasingly prefers a flawed adult over a group of fashionable children screaming on prime-time television.

And this is what much of the elite still cannot emotionally process:

You may hate Netanyahu.

But millions still look at him and see the only guy in the room who understands that the Middle East is not a university seminar about coexistence.

So What Happens Next?

Probably the same thing that always happens in Israel.

Everybody will declare victory.
Everybody will accuse everybody else of destroying democracy.
Historic coalitions will be formed.
They will collapse two years later.
Twitter will become radioactive.
And the country will continue surviving out of pure national stubbornness.

Because Israel does not operate according to political science.

It operates according to miracles, anxiety, military reserves, and family WhatsApp groups.

And In The End?

Maybe Netanyahu made mistakes.
Of course he did.
Every leader who stays in power long enough eventually does.

But there is something undeniably hilarious about an entire political, legal, and media ecosystem dedicating itself for years to bringing down one man,
only to discover he keeps standing there like Gulliver while tiny furious politicians throw mud at his shoes.

And meanwhile, the giant keeps walking.

While the dwarfs keep screaming:
“Maybe this time he’ll slip.”

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