The Jerusalem Post is a very conservative Isreali newspaper, and in a Poll 805 of it's readers blame Bibi for the intellgence failure. if he doing that badly with his core costituincey, that, after the crisis has passed, he is toast.
The most recent poll that came out after the terrorist attack (Oct 13) showed that Bibi's block went down to 42 seats (currently 64 out of 120)
His party practically cut in half.
However... Again, as I said, don't count him out yet. First, sadly, Israeli polls tend to be extremely unreliable for many reasons
It's possible when the next election he will lose. But he will go down fighting.
Bibi has this thing we call in Hebrew "Mechonat Haraal" a rough translation would be the "poison machine". It is a very well crafted and funded personal propaganda machine that operates 24\7 and at lightning speed.
It includes not only high profile public figures, commentators and "reporters". Heck he even has his own propaganda channel (24). Think Fox News, but actually receiving public money and governmental benefits (including rushed laws they tried to push now - during the crisis).
Also to anyone who forgot, 2 out of 3 of his legal cases are about how he attempted to interfere and hold the media and get news publishers pretty much do his bidding.
It also includes a massive amount of social media accounts (real people and fake ones) as well as a huge group of activists that do his biddings and go do protests in his honor. Said activists were proven time and time again to have not just direct contact with him but actually going directly to and from his own home.
You can see that it is working. Most stories that are being published now that even mention a hint of government inefficacy (and there are more than just hints, there are full blown walkthroughs at this point) you will see dozens of responses screaming "It's Oslo fault, it's the separation from Gaza fault, it's because the previous government has Muslim brotherhood people in it" and what not. Likely mostly bots, but people will hear that in the streets.
All coalition partners have clear and strict order to never ever take any responsibility. Most of the army chief officials have admitted their faults. The government? 0(!)
The only one to throw a line was Kish (Minister of Education) and he backtracked it almost instantly the same day. They avoid the question from reporters constantly.
They also have one military expert that claims that only Bibi listened to him all along and nobody else did - something that can't seem to be verified and every other security experts says otherwise. But Bibi's followers are humans and like most humans - when they have news sources that tell them what they want to hear, they will follow them no matter what.
He isn't called "The Magician" for nothing. He is a master of creating these types of deception.
Here is an example we had in the recent week. I kid you not, true story, but be warned it might make your blood sizzle.
He was going for a photo op with the family members of the missing victims. He knew in advance that they are going to be extremely hostile towards him (no kidding...). Then when the meeting was taking place, they had several people come to him there and tell him how much they love and worship him and they know that everything will be fine if he is in the lead.
Naturally, he only released that part in his campaigning. However, the victim family were completely baffled as to who those people are. As they started asking around, those people were not victim families at all. They were stooges that came to the photo op just so he can show that people support him.
Yes, he did that in during a meeting with actual victim families.
As I said, the man cares about nothing but his own personal survivability and he will use every trick in the book to get it.
Heck, he probably could write a dozen new books on how to do it.
